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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This what fascinates me learning about languages. They have their own characters and quirks. Languages are the embodiment of the people’s culture and history. That said, the English language shows how messed up it is.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That said, the English language shows how messed up its history is.

    The irony is that Britain is, to the best of my knowledge, the only country other than Sweden whose mainland hasn’t been occupied by a foreign invader in over 950 years.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The irony is that Britain is, to the best of my knowledge, the only country other than Sweden whose mainland hasn’t been occupied by a foreign invader in over 950 years.

      i mean other than the british

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  English is a terrible language and I really need to get gooder at it.

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  • werty@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *better

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    • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      *gooderer

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• Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So thankful I could parse that without thinking on it. Can you imagine learning that shit from scratch?!

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    • Vintor@retrolemmy.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      English is a pretty simple language to learn, but the pronunciation isn’t part of that simplicity. It’s especially tough to unlearn wrong pronunciations you’ve cultivated for years. In my case (for instance), sword (which I pronounced like “word”) and realm (re-alm).

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• elvith@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Our Strange Lingo

  When the English tongue we speak.
  Why is break not rhymed with freak?
  Will you tell me why it’s true
  We say sew but likewise few?
  And the maker of the verse,
  Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
  Beard is not the same as heard
  Cord is different from word.
  Cow is cow but low is low
  Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
  Think of hose, dose,and lose
  And think of goose and yet with choose
  Think of comb, tomb and bomb,
  Doll and roll or home and some.
  Since pay is rhymed with say
  Why not paid with said I pray?
  Think of blood, food and good.
  Mould is not pronounced like could.
  Wherefore done, but gone and lone -
  Is there any reason known?
  To sum up all, it seems to me
  Sound and letters don’t agree.

  - Lord Cromer

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    See also “The Chaos”: ncf.idallen.com/english.html

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  • Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Beautiful, but is there really a difference in pronunciation of hose and dose? I always pronounce them similarly…

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    • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hose is pronounced /hōz/ and dose is pronounced /dōs/ in “Standard English” (which is a specific and deliberately invented dialect taught to news anchors to try to smooth out all the regional differences), actual english varies so much over time and space that both words have numerous variations - www.howtopronounce.com/hose, plus we change our inflection on words depending on where they are in a sentence - and plenty of context can change if the emphasis is on the vowel or the ending consonant: All my hoes know a hose is a hose.

      Simply put - as long as people understand the ideas you’re conveying, don’t worry too much about precise spelling and punctuation - it’s literally all made up.

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    • elvith@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A little bit:

      hose: ˈhōz

      dose: ˈdōs

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• Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was like “reed” and “led”, went back to “red” and “led”, continued to “red” and “lead” and was like OMG I’m such a basic white bitch LOL and took a sip of my pumpkin spice luh-theh.

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• Bot@sub.community ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This cat is like on catnip

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  • 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Zonked

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• EndOfLine@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Read and lead don’t even rhyme… Same is true for read and lead.

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  • seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    thats actually how i read it the first time

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    • PhAzE@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What about wind and wind?

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• original_reader@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If anyone wants to know, such words are called heteronyms.

  Had to look up other examplea. Turns out there’s a few of those. For example: tear, wind, row, sow, bound.

  Class is over.

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  • vateso5074@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait how else would you pronounce ‘bound’?

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    • original_reader@lemmy.zip ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      You don’t. But it still has double meaning.

      Good catch. It might not perfectly fit this list.

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    • mittyta@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bound vs bound

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• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anyone else pronounce it as reed and leed first?

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  • polydactyl@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes.

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  • Flying_Dutch_Rudder@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I read it as red and led first. I wonder where this will lead us?

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• Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sean Bean has a lot to answer for!

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My stream of consciousness: “What? Reed isn’t pronounced like led. Oh there’s more here… Ohhh, red is pronounced like leed. Er, reed is pronounced like… uhhh… anyway, I get it.”

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• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Which witch went which way?

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