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My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME
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Maybe English should just get rid of the stupid "the first consonant is silent when two consonants form the beginning of a word" rule tbf.
It's a skill issue to mispronounce loan words (like gnome, pterodactyl or psychology).
English is a hideous mongrel of a language.
I was already an adult when I learned that "salmon" is supposed to be pronounced as "sammon".
Thanks for the painful laugh, Gugulethu
Wait wait wait... How are baked and naked supposed to be pronounced?
I think, e is silent in baked and not in naked. But that's kind of like Sean Bean
I've been pronouncing naked as baked for a while now. Thankfully it doesn't come up in conversation as often.
out of curiosity, do you speak another language than English?
I sure don't!
ah, I was wondering because, in comparison to my native tongue (French), I've found English significantly more intuitive. I may be biased though, or French may just be another mongrel of a language ๐
My uneducated feeling so far is that most languages weren't developed with particularly logical rules, and rules were added retroactively, and as such, most languages are ugly amalgamations, but English gets some of the worst rep because of its dominance on the internet.
Snail, small, three, press, change. I could keep going.
I've never heard of that rule. There are a few combos that are basically always that way though: pt, gn, and kn come to mind.
And then there are the cases where two consonants combine to form another sound entirely: ph, ch, sh, th.
If you donโt pronounce the p in pterodactyl or psychiatrist then lose my number
If I start pronouncing them, can I get your number?
You just want to see the pretty bunnies, won't you?
Who wouldn't
Tortoise might be fine too
English is a mix and match of a bunch of other languages