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• OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hate this language so much.

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  • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    England has been invaded and conquered 4 times (?). The language is a mess of leftover words and crammer.

    Celts Romans Angle Saxons (Jutes) Vikings Normans

    martinpollins.com/…/the-waves-of-invaders-who-sha…

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the main problem with english is that they invented printing first, and then had massive changes in vowel pronunciations lmao

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …it’s because of all the colonising and stealing of words.

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No ironically it has far more to do with being colonized than colonizing, although when you go that far back the distinction between terms like English, Norman, or Anglo-Saxon get a little fuzzy.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why didn’t they steal sometbing to replace read and lead?

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• Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  vaseline sounds like it should have been spelled vasilene but the i and the e got switched as a funny prank and it stuck.

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Great podcast.

  waywordradio.org

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, one is a compound noun and the other is a trademark that became a common word.

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• quips@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All languages are beautiful

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• Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Would good food nude be lewd?

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• LSNLDN@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All the good will that I had had had had no effect on my disdain for this language

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• KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s mostly the orthography being horrifically out of date and not being designed well

  Bāslyn Vaselín

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• MithranArkanere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Use the International Phonetic Alphabet.

  /rɛːd/, /riːd/
  /ˈlɛd/, /ˈlɛd/

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    English has no rules, we should all revel in the chaos rather than having our language be stringently defined.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stanard Reply to this: ncf.idallen.com/english.html

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• Batmancer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve seen this before, this time I chose to make the statements false by rhyming and not rhyming where appropriately or inappropriately acceptable.

  I don’t know why I did this, maybe just for fun being silly.

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• BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Past tense lead (as in a horse to water) is led, though

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dunno if oblivious but it’s
    Lead (metal) and to lead (a horse)

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    • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had just woken from a nap before commenting, brain dumb

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