Comment on Niche species

• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As an American if someone said “nitch” out loud I would secretly die inside and then do my best to remember this:

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  • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would make me cringe asf but similarly I would remember policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language is mostly BS and your time can be spent in much better ways.

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language

      Pretty much every language besides english has an institute dedicated to doing that exact thing. In spanish it’s the Royal Spanish Academy (La Real Academia Española).

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, and it’s kinda bullshit.

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean that t is kinda already there if you don’t know that it’s French. Compared “beach”.

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• Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Nitch”

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