Comment on Randezvous 📅

• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

  source

  • 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.

    source

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

      source
  • 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.

    source
• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

  source
• baines@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  look i’m not trying to defend english

  french loan words are just worse

  source