Comment on French culture

Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  though thoughts are tough.

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  • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Thogh thaughts are tuff,” in a more blessèd timeline.

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      tho foghts are tuf

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      • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        In the end, it’s all subjective but – if you’ll hear me out – thogh doesn’t alter the current spelling very much while maintaining a linguistic heritage (as the “thogh” spelling was also likewise used, during Middle English); also, the number of words ending in just the “o” vowel is less common, I feel, and will probably look doubly foreign to a native English speaker due to the consonant digraph (though, again, subjective; maybe not).

        However, – additionally – saving “oght” for “thought” is giving that letter combination a sound already covered in English by another letter combination: “aught” (e.g. caught, fraught, taught, …thaught…?).

        Finally, a single “f” for “tough” could work (certainly, there are examples) but we miss out on employing the Germanic linguistic tendency to indicate a short vowel sound with a double consonant, inherited by words such as “ball”, “fall”, “doll”, “call”, or “puff” (of course, there’s plenty of exceptions (“get”, “bet”, “mat”, etc.) but, so long as we’re making changes, firming up an existing rule (and avoiding the brief uncertainty of whether or not the reader is dealing with a prefix) would, arguably, be useful).

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• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “I love to read, I read an interesting book yesterday”

  Seriously, who came up with this shit 😭

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Imagine you are reading this aloud, you can’t know how to pronounce the second “read” until you get to “yesterday”. Schrödingers pronunciation.

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    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Actually, you’re right, I didn’t even think about it

      If I wrote “I love to read, I read an interesting book every day”, then the way you say the latter ‘read’ shifts from my original example, and it depends on context that comes later in the sentence

      Wack

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Clearly, the solution is to make your own writing system for English and then have noone use it so it just looks like weird gibberish to them

    “Y lov tu réd, y red an intarestiŋ buk tudá.”

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• dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Uh, that is pronounced “lead”. You’re welcome.

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  • JLock17@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For those illiterates who need a clear example, “lead lead lead.” Simple geography.

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