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[-] AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 36 points 3 months ago

The UK should do a major spelling reform and troll the shit out of the U.S and their then "archaic" English.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 months ago

Ðat wúd bē sō sili, hüever it wúd absolútli rúin ŪK-ŪS komūnikāshon

Sum myt sā ðat's a gúd þing ðō

[-] zerofk@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago

That looks unironically great. Relatively easy to read and as far as I could tell, internally consistent. Two things current English spelling lacks.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

I've worked on it as a personal writing system for probably like a year or so now

Y'v werkt on it az a personal ryting sistem for probabli lyk a jēr or sō nü

[-] logi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

One major issue is that it'll expose all regional differences in pronunciation in the spelling and now we'll disagree about the spelling instead.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

We already do though, one's color is another's colour and one's spelled is another's spelt

Those would be kuler and spelt in my dialect and writing system

[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 9 points 3 months ago

UK is the worst, US makes sense at least to some degree.

Gloucestershire - pronounced glostershire Warwick - pronounced warrick And there like hundreds of these weird ones.

[-] arudesalad@piefed.ca 45 points 3 months ago

Place names are cheating. Almost all of them come from old/other languages that have very little resemblance to modern english.

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The UK accent is actually more modern than that of the US because the US imported the UK one around the time of colonization.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago

The UK accent

Which one of the dozens if not hundreds of regional and culturally originated dialects and accents do you mean?

actually more modern than that of the US because the US imported the UK one around the time of colonization

That's not how it works.

Like the Spanish- French- and Portuguese-speaking parts of the Americas, American English may have developed from an earlier form of English, but It has since gone through its own parallel evolution, making it just as "modern" as British English.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 17 points 3 months ago

The US one evolved as well, just preserved rhoticity which is a major feature. There's no "UK accent" (nor "us accent") either - West country accents for example are still rhotic

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

West country accents for example are still rhotic

Good thing, too, pirates would sound silly saying, "Ahhhhh, shivah me timbahs!"

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

There’s no “UK accent” (nor “us accent”)

There is an accent called General American (GenAm), however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English?useskin=vector

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Sure but even that isn't all encompassing. I'm from SoCal and my accent/dialect has so many archaicisms that I'm probably one of the only people under 50 with the damned thing. What I get for being around old people I guess.

Though I do suppress into something approaching the general accent when talking to others, mostly because for example Mountain Dew gets mangled into münten doo.

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago

No, that is garbled nonsense based on the misunderstanding of a factoid.

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