…it’s because of all the colonising and stealing of words.
Can't wait.
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DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Why didn’t they steal sometbing to replace read and lead?
Draegur@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Great podcast.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Well, one is a compound noun and the other is a trademark that became a common word.
quips@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
All languages are beautiful
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Would good food nude be lewd?
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
All the good will that I had had had had no effect on my disdain for this language
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It’s mostly the orthography being horrifically out of date and not being designed well
Bāslyn Vaselín
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Use the International Phonetic Alphabet.
/rɛːd/, /riːd/
/ˈlɛd/, /ˈlɛd/echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
English has no rules, we should all revel in the chaos rather than having our language be stringently defined.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Stanard Reply to this: ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Batmancer@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Past tense lead (as in a horse to water) is led, though
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Dunno if oblivious but it’s
Lead (metal) and to lead (a horse)BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I had just woken from a nap before commenting, brain dumb
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 months ago
I hate this language so much.
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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…
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the main problem with english is that they invented printing first, and then had massive changes in vowel pronunciations lmao