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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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    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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