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[+] 77 points 1 year ago (18 children)
  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Maybe English should just get rid of the stupid "the first consonant is silent when two consonants form the beginning of a word" rule tbf.

    It's a skill issue to mispronounce loan words (like gnome, pterodactyl or psychology).

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If you don’t pronounce the p in pterodactyl or psychiatrist then lose my number

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If I start pronouncing them, can I get your number?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Snail, small, three, press, change. I could keep going.

    I've never heard of that rule. There are a few combos that are basically always that way though: pt, gn, and kn come to mind.

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  • [+] 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I was already an adult when I learned that "salmon" is supposed to be pronounced as "sammon".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wait wait wait... How are baked and naked supposed to be pronounced?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    out of curiosity, do you speak another language than English?

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    ah, I was wondering because, in comparison to my native tongue (French), I've found English significantly more intuitive. I may be biased though, or French may just be another mongrel of a language πŸ˜…

    My uneducated feeling so far is that most languages weren't developed with particularly logical rules, and rules were added retroactively, and as such, most languages are ugly amalgamations, but English gets some of the worst rep because of its dominance on the internet.

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