Comment on Randezvous 📅

baines@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What logic?

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It had its own logic before the inanity of French came in during the Norman Invasion

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    • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.

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      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I love the quote, but I think it’s important to credit its creator - James Nicoll

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also before the English fixed their spelling in like 1500, and then did 500 years of sound shifting. It needs a spelling reform, desperately.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know, the logic that has a word like “knight” where half of the letters are silent.

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  • baines@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    look i’m not trying to defend english

    french loan words are just worse

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