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This is interesting, you’re kind of proving yourself wrong. If “The most popular pronounce a word wins”, as you say, then why are you and others still so ardently supportive of one pronunciation(deemed correct by the inventor) or the other(deemed incorrect by the inventor)? Seems like if you had won, there wouldn’t be any debate.

It just sounds like you’re making the case that coba-bola should be the new name for Coca-Cola. That can definitely be your name for it, and you can try to convince as many people as you want of a name that you prefer. But it doesn’t change the original and correct name of that beverage.

Sure, follow the majority. While majority rule often turns out to be incorrect and it doesn’t seem like the right way for me to make decisions or judgments, it’s certainly your prerogative to pronounced jif the same way many other people do.

For you, a hard g is more popular and comfortable, and that’s great. Doesn’t make it correct, but it’s still great.

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bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

For you, a hard g is more popular and comfortable, and that’s great. Doesn’t make it correct, but it’s still great.

Actually that’s exactly what makes it correct, language is democratic. The more popular way to convey ideas is the correct way, as that is the entire purpose of language (to convey ideas to other individuals) and that’s why language changes over time.

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- Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The more popular way to convey ideas is the more popular way, not the correct way. 🍆 💦
  
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  - bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I love how you just have a compulsive need to be wrong at this point, it’s something you don’t see everyday.
    
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    Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That your mantra?
    
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CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I got to be honest with you, but I’m already over this topic, so I’m not even going to read your latest response to me. There really isn’t anything new either of us have to share; you pronounce it one way, the majority pronounce it another. The end. Have a good evening/night/morning/etc.

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- Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ah yes, proving you don’t care about a subject by continuing to discuss it. Classic.
  
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