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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 110 points 1 month ago

You don't have to blur fucking on Lemmy.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago

This is almost certainly copied from Facebook, not blurred especially for Lemmy.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

They should unblur it before posting it here.

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[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago

I'll say fudge-diddly-darn if I want to and you can't stop me.

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[-] vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The term, yacht, originates from the Dutch word jacht (pl. jachten), which means "hunt", and originally referred to light, fast sailing vessels that the Dutch Republic navy used to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries.

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 14 points 1 month ago

We also use the word for hunting in fighter jets (jachtvliegtuig = hunt airplane, straaljager = jet hunter), imagine Dutch being as influential now as is was then; we'd have yacht airplanes.

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[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

Monolinugal people thinking that the pronounciation of some rare words is the big issue when learning languages...

Dude, try memorizing the correct grammatical gender for every single noun or every single exception to regular declinations. And that's just for a medium-difficulty language like German.

You know how there's simple English versions of news articles? The same thing exists with German. And the language in these Simple German articles is more difficult than the regular English version.

English is THE easy mode language of the world, which is why e.g. pretty much anyone in Europe defaults to it if they are speaking to anyone who speaks a different native language. Like, if someone from Austria speaks with someone from Ukraine, they will use English.

[-] carotte 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i mean, no, the reason english is the default language of the world is due to (british, and then american) imperialism

french and latin were once the default languages of europe for the same reason

and how hard a language is to learn is kinda irrelevant, because it will always depend on what language(s) you already know. for monolingual speakers of english, it’s hard to learn a language with grammatical genders, but if you already speak a language with those, that won’t be a problem

[-] glorkon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"for monolingual speakers of english, it’s hard to learn a language with grammatical genders, but if you already speak a language with those, that won’t be a problem"

Not necessarily. I'm German and I still have to learn French grammatical genders by heart, because they don't necessarily match ours. Familiarity with the concept doesn't make it any easier, just less weird.

Example: The tower. LA tour, feminine. DER Turm, masculine.

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[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

but if you already speak a language with those, that won’t be a problem

Tell me you are a monolinugal English speaker without telling me.

The problem is not wrapping your mind around the concept of grammatical genders, but that you have to memorize them for every word. And they are different in any language with grammatical gender.

For example:

  • Italian: La luna (female), il sole (male)
  • German: Der Mond (male), die Sonne (female)

or

  • German: Das Huhn (neuter)
  • Italian: il pollo (male)
  • Spanish: la gallina (female)

Knowing the grammatical gender of something in one language won't help you one bit when learning another language. In fact, it might be even detrimental, because it's different in every language.

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[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

try memorizing the correct grammatical gender

Americans don't memorize all that shit for English either. We just start using words. German is the same. Don't try and learn it out of a textbook, just start talking and reading.

And the best part is you can pronounce their words pretty logically.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

English is THE easy mode language of the world

hahahaha, no, it is not. A significant amount of words are ambiguous if isolated from their context (take "fire": as in fire a shot, a flame, fire a worker, "this is fire"?), pronunciation is all over the place, it feels like there are more exceptions than rules when it comes to past-present-future verbs

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Only someone who has never learned a second language thinks that this is difficult or somehow special to English.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm so glad that fucking was censored (although not really at all censored, since I can clearly still see the word), I would have been offended if it wasn't.

Imagine bad language on the internet.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Capitalism is ruining our greatest gift, language.

We have a whole ass generation growing up having to learn to use weird euphemisms for everything and anything remotely controversial and it's totally normal to them. If I were really conspiracy-minded I would be screaming how "They" are doing this on purpose so they can better control us... but my sad, matured understanding of the world has taught me that nobody is in charge, we're not a smart enough species to create that kind of functional hierarchy, it's just consequence of systems we collectively refuse to change.

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This sound like something someone who only speaks English would say.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

As someone who learned English in school, I can assure you that the word "yacht" is rather at the bottom of the list of troubles.

See: "The Chaos" (poem)

[-] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

It's way longer than I remember. I think I only ever saw an abridged version or something.

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[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago

Hm the word yacht is easy, it means Jacht :-)

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 18 points 1 month ago

Bitch please:

Skildvagtslymfeknudeundersøgelse

Welcome to Danish.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän. Actual word for an actual job that existed until 1991. Welcome to German.

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[-] kazerniel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago
[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago

Uncensored.

Just do a search for a bit of the text before posting this stuff. It's super easy to find the uncensored version.

POST THAT. Let's kill off this censored trash.

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[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

To be fair, most of the weirdly spelled words come from other languages. Especially French.

[-] hagelslager@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago

Yup, in this case: Yacht comes from the Dutch word "jacht" (hunt). Named after fast sailing vessels to hunt down pirates and enemies.

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[-] NewDark@lemmings.world 13 points 1 month ago

In a sick way I'm glad it's the language I was raised with. On the other hand, maybe the British should have conquered less.

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 9 points 1 month ago

I feel the same just for German. English is the simpleton language of the world. Nothing complicated about learning it.

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[-] SCmSTR 13 points 1 month ago

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[-] bricklove@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago

Though he aught to have picked a tougher word.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

When I learned that the proper pronunciation of the word queue is basically a letter q followed by a bunch of silent letters, I had to take a break for a while. I enjoy the sound of English language, so that kept me going afterwards, but I am still salty.

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[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 points 1 month ago

So.... No one in here has tried to learn Mandarin in here huh?

Let's talk about Hanji, heck worse let's talk about:

四是四,十是十,十四是十四,四十是四十;
谁把十四说“十适”,就打他十四;
谁把四十说“适十”,就打他四十

Which is pronounced like:

sì shì sì, shí shì shí, shísì shì shísì, sìshí shì sìshí;
shéi bǎ shísì shuō “shíshì”, jiù dǎ tā shísì,
shéi bǎ sìshí shuō “shìshí”, jiù dǎ tā sìshí.

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[-] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago
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[-] epicstove@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

My favorite has to be "read" (to read a book) and "read" (previously read a book)

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[-] peterg@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

As a person who learned English as an adult, u can tell you that the word that gave me the most trouble early on was "weather". I mean these sounds are impossible!!

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[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Fuck censorship.

[-] TomMasz@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

I can hear a word in Spanish and immediately know how to spell it. I can read a word in Spanish and know how to pronounce it. We can only dream of doing that in English.

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[-] lowered_lifted 9 points 1 month ago

I think people from places that use idiographic languages that have to be transliterated probably actually have an easier time with English orthography than people whose language uses a Roman script and is pronounced phonetically. People who are used to puzzling through the layer of abstraction/obfuscation that sometimes ambiguous transliterations will have can see that English orthography is almost always substantially different than its pronunciation.

TL;DR: it's easier for a Chinese person to learn to read English aloud than a person from Romania, but the European would have studied it in school either somewhat or a lot

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[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Relevant "Raymond Luxury Yacht" Monty Python sketch https://youtu.be/tyQvjKqXA0Y

[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Welcome to mandarin.
How many ways can you write the same sound?
The answer is yes.

« Shī Shì shí shī shǐ »

Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī.
Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.
Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì.
Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì.
Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shì shì.
Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shí shì.
Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shí shì.
Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī.
Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī shī, shí shí shí shī shī.
Shì shì shì shì.

《施氏食獅史》

石室詩士施氏,嗜獅,誓食十獅。
氏時時適市視獅。
十時,適十獅適市。
是時,適施氏適市。
氏視是十獅,恃矢勢,使是十獅逝世。
氏拾是十獅屍,適石室。
石室濕,氏使侍拭石室。
石室拭,氏始試食是十獅。
食時,始識是十獅屍,實十石獅屍。
試釋是事。

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[-] lefixxx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I was gonna mention the silent k, h, e but then I remember french. They have like 50% silent letters at random. I remember how flabbergasted I was to see millefeuille written the first time.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

English is just Esperanto with no rules.

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