I’m reading a book based on a fantasy medieval Eastern Europe and boy, I gotta sound out some of these names and it unironically takes a minute sometimes
That’s what’s I’m saying… probably a relic of a slightly earlier English. Edit: just looked it up, late 16th century imitative of the form seen above came into use due to its association with cough. The spelling you were using is the American spelling while hiccough is more found in the UK.
English is three languages stacked on top of each other and wearing a trench-coat
But the Professor would be the first to tell you here that it makes no sense to intermix parts of words with Romance and Germanic roots
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Wife made this shirt for me, coincidentally was wearing it today when I saw this post! None of my in laws get it 😢
I mean that's an old spelling of hiccup but technically could still be correct I guess. Phthisis on the other hand I don't think makes a *tuh* sound does it?
Because we use the Latin alphabet for a non-latin language with sounds that can't be represented with single letters. There have been a few alphabets proposed, but the cost of transitioning away would be so incredibly high it's not worth it. Everything would have go be printed in Latin script and whatever new script is adopted during a transition period, both would need to be taught in schools for at least one generation. And we would no longer share an alphabet with many other languages, making learning other languages more difficult. So instead we just stick with our objectively inefficient system.
I always thought 'hiccough' was pronounced like 'cough' so like, hiccoff basically. Like some weird old timey word that's no longer used or whatever. Was that wrong?
Well, in french some really good writer fund a specific alphabet named ; l'orthographe d'apparat.
It's the exact same thing, like in this exemple but for each letter, like "a" It's now "igt" like igt in doigt (finger).
We can write entire sentence without using the fucking good letter.
I take offense because this meme claims it is the correct way.
It is not correct.
Possible, but not correct. Correct is the current spelling of potato.
Also, I take offense that it is combining eytmological roots for this snippets of words. Old English, Dutch, German, Italian, maybe more.
Also, gazette is French. English didn't even change the word, so that makes this meme even worse.
that's just Welsh
Now you say it. It's make more sense.
don't know, looks kinda Polish: CHRZĄSZCZ BRZMI W TRZCINIE W SZCZEBRZESZYNIE
I’m reading a book based on a fantasy medieval Eastern Europe and boy, I gotta sound out some of these names and it unironically takes a minute sometimes
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz is a name a Polish movie character uses and is completely pronounceable to the average Pole 😁
Let me guess, an Anglo would try to spell it Gregor Breshkiwich
https://youtu.be/AfKZclMWS1U?si=5wWWNBtOh8U15LrK
Read it? The polish guy replied, i know the guy
Looks rough tho
Kurwa!
Needs more vowels replaced with w's
Needs a couple of Cs and Ys too. And while you'll at it, a double L as well.
just because, "oh welsh"
No it isn't 😆 It's clearly the language of the Old Ones
Which is the same as Finnish, only different...
Phtheighthers, boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
I was thinking of the same when i saw that post.
But....that's not how you spell hiccup?
apparently they spell it like that in Britain and that’s why they lost the revolutionary war
No one spells it like that here in the UK, it's insanely old-timey
Tolkien probably did hahaha
I'd bet it was pronounced differently back when it was spelled that way
100% not how brits spell it
That spelling predates the revolutionary war by over 100 years, no one uses it anymore
Clearly
For people that invented the language they sure don't know how to use it.
Conlangs are the only case of languages being invented. The rest just… kind of happen 🤣
You say 'ghoughphtheightteeau'. I say 'ghoughphthaughtteeau'.
Laette'ps kawl thuh whoughl thyng awegh.
It’d go real nice with some ghoti.
ghoti & czoghs 😋
juicy ghotises
Time to send this to my Englisch Teacher.
Ja
And what was his/her answer??
Wait, is hiccough meant to be pronounced like hiccup?
That’s what’s I’m saying… probably a relic of a slightly earlier English. Edit: just looked it up, late 16th century imitative of the form seen above came into use due to its association with cough. The spelling you were using is the American spelling while hiccough is more found in the UK.
Same word, different spelling
r/tragedeigh
lol I came to say the same thing
English is three languages stacked on top of each other and wearing a trench-coat But the Professor would be the first to tell you here that it makes no sense to intermix parts of words with Romance and Germanic roots
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Ftagn
Ghoti
I don't know how y'all be spellin' hiccup...
Boil em, mash em, stick ‘em in a stew
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goupfaytu*
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I mean that's an old spelling of hiccup but technically could still be correct I guess. Phthisis on the other hand I don't think makes a *tuh* sound does it?
Because we use the Latin alphabet for a non-latin language with sounds that can't be represented with single letters. There have been a few alphabets proposed, but the cost of transitioning away would be so incredibly high it's not worth it. Everything would have go be printed in Latin script and whatever new script is adopted during a transition period, both would need to be taught in schools for at least one generation. And we would no longer share an alphabet with many other languages, making learning other languages more difficult. So instead we just stick with our objectively inefficient system.
Or you can say Pottit
I always thought 'hiccough' was pronounced like 'cough' so like, hiccoff basically. Like some weird old timey word that's no longer used or whatever. Was that wrong?
Well, in french some really good writer fund a specific alphabet named ; l'orthographe d'apparat. It's the exact same thing, like in this exemple but for each letter, like "a" It's now "igt" like igt in doigt (finger). We can write entire sentence without using the fucking good letter.
This is how I see celtic
I cant English anymore...
I potate, therefore I am.
GHOUGH-PHTHEIGH-TTEEAUS
r/tragedeigh
I hate that the more i read it the more it looks like a normal word. Fuck my brain lol.
I take offense because this meme claims it is the correct way. It is not correct. Possible, but not correct. Correct is the current spelling of potato. Also, I take offense that it is combining eytmological roots for this snippets of words. Old English, Dutch, German, Italian, maybe more. Also, gazette is French. English didn't even change the word, so that makes this meme even worse.
That’s….not how you spell hiccup though. Edit: apparently the UK does it differently, fair enough. Typically though ‘ough’ doesn’t replace ‘p’.