English is the LAST language that gets to complain about how you pronounce stuff. Ever read an english word that you haven't heard before? You're pronouncing it wrong.
The UK should do a major spelling reform and troll the shit out of the U.S and their then "archaic" English.
Ðat wúd bē sō sili, hüever it wúd absolútli rúin ŪK-ŪS komūnikāshon
Sum myt sā ðat's a gúd þing ðō
That looks unironically great. Relatively easy to read and as far as I could tell, internally consistent. Two things current English spelling lacks.
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
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.
Place names are cheating. Almost all of them come from old/other languages that have very little resemblance to modern english.
The UK accent is actually more modern than that of the US because the US imported the UK one around the time of colonization.
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.
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
No, that is garbled nonsense based on the misunderstanding of a factoid.
But this is someone complaining about an English word and how it is pronounced compared to spelling. Yes, it comes from another language. That is the entire reason English has a lot of examples like this.
You can work it out through tough thorough thought, though.
Of all people, Gallagher made the point in the 80s. I think George Carlin also did a set about English words once.
Seriously!
We have a third grader, and he's pretty good at reading. Recently he has been arguing with us about the pronunciation of some new words from his homework.
The problem is, his arguments are sound! He's accurately following the rules he learned for sounding out words.
When this has come up in the past, all I've been able to do is acknowledge his argument and explain to him how English has all kinds of weird rules and exceptions, and it's the kind of thing you remember with experience using the words. Like, there is no new rule to learn, and you don't have to freak out about remembering all these exceptions. It will just come with time. (Because we all know there's nothing that kids like more than olds telling them to just wait or give it time, lol)
English is basically three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat
FTFY
This guy absolutely destroys pussy
EDIT: I don't know why I worded it like that but I stand by it.
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things that would offend advertisers?
Won't someone think of the shareholders! 😭
I love this
Because god forbid someone reposts an image here from Reddit that had been censored. what a travisty :)
Strangest fucking hill to die on.
The original uncensored version took three seconds on TinEye.com to find.
Hero.
Saving the ecosystem one shitpost at a time
FUCK
No thanks, I'm a bit tired right now. Maybe later 🤷
We must self censor. To comply with the shitfeed updoots.
Pretty sure it was the Swedish who decided the pronunciation of “rendezvous”. Kinda obvious, really.
I blame the Danish
Speaking as a Dane, I accept the blame. In fact it was me. I decided it.
Us Germans also use this word, but where I come from, we pronounce it RANG-deh-WUH.
Beautiful.
No no a Mongolian is a personal who lives in the Mongol region north of China. She called you a Mongoose
No no a Mongoose is a small carnivorous animal. She called you a Monologue.
To be fair, usually when a language adopts a new word from other languages, they start spelling it in there own fashion. English is unusual in that they use the original spelling.
French in particular gets a lot of words with original spellings because it used to be the language of the courts in England.
Not always, the word skosh(meaning just a little bit or a tiny amount) comes from the Japanese word sukoshi(少し), but that can probably be attributed to the language not generally using romanized letters.
It's a very interesting word to me since its one of the very few words that migrated from Japanese to English and isn't a name of something. The way it came over is also rather interesting, as it was through collaboration between US and Japanese soldiers during the Korean war.
When c/lemmyshitpost sees the word "fuck" censored.
Not to long ago, I was mourning the loss of the Conversatron 3000. It was a forum site that was nothing but comedy writers, using the medium to tell a flavor of joke and observational humor that could only work on that medium. A lot of it had this formula of "dumb question/observation", "dumber retort", "setup", and finally "witty punchline." Sometimes, that would just thread on for multiple rounds. Rarely, threads were open to user comments too.
Now I understand why that hasn't come back. We don't need it anymore.
Etymology: The word originated from Mr. Rónald Dèus Vu, which the concept is named after. It later simplified to Rón-Dè-Vu
Synonyms: déjà vu, jamais vu
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