Comment on Typical monopoly people

• KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

  Sum myt sā ðat’s a gúd þing ðō

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  • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • arudesalad@piefed.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The UK accent is actually more “modern” than the US one because the US one is more aligned with the accent imported around the time of colonialism.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English?us…

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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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