French: we will write the language the way it was pronounced several centuries ago, so that the spellings make no sense anymore and you have to memorise unexpected pronunciations of several digraphs and trigraphs
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French: we will write the language the way it was pronounced several centuries ago, so that the spellings make no sense anymore and you have to memorise unexpected pronunciations of several digraphs and trigraphs
Irish: hold my beóir
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French: we will write the language the way it was pronounced several centuries ago, so that the spellings make no sense anymore and you have to memorise unexpected pronunciations of several digraphs and trigraphs
Irish: hold my beóir
English: cool but hear me out, what if we do write the sounds of 500 years ago including whole phonemes that don't exist anymore but we also do that in an inconsistent way, so that for any given spelling there's no way to guess what's the modern reading
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English: cool but hear me out, what if we do write the sounds of 500 years ago including whole phonemes that don't exist anymore but we also do that in an inconsistent way, so that for any given spelling there's no way to guess what's the modern reading
@elilla Also, let's grab lots of words from other languages with different conventions in case there's any remaining signal in the noise.
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English: cool but hear me out, what if we do write the sounds of 500 years ago including whole phonemes that don't exist anymore but we also do that in an inconsistent way, so that for any given spelling there's no way to guess what's the modern reading
English: and whenever someone asks about the reasons we will claim it's because the language is so "mixed" and "impure", even though it's no more mixed than any other widespread language, so that we can blame foreign influences for it rather than our unwillingness to admit the spelling is outdated or reform it
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French: we will write the language the way it was pronounced several centuries ago, so that the spellings make no sense anymore and you have to memorise unexpected pronunciations of several digraphs and trigraphs
Irish: hold my beóir
@elilla I mean, that kinda stuff just happens when you make formal spelling and then time passes. -
English: and whenever someone asks about the reasons we will claim it's because the language is so "mixed" and "impure", even though it's no more mixed than any other widespread language, so that we can blame foreign influences for it rather than our unwillingness to admit the spelling is outdated or reform it
English: and after we conquer the world at gunpoint sunrise to sunset we will force everyone to learn English if they want to even hope to have a job, and we will teach them proper posh vocabulary with highly traumatic education methods, *but* as soon as it has taken root in the colonies we will abandon such vocabulary and consider it weird and outdated, and *then* we will invent bullshit machines that will be trained by the colonials so the machines will parrot words we taught our serfs like "delve" or "tapestry", so that when our former colonies write normally we can claim that their language is that of bullshit machines.
everyone else: dude, chill
