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crimsonpoodle@pawb.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 hours ago

Before dictionaries/standardization words were written how they sounded with different spellings, now we have a shared set of spellings but people don’t talk outloud as often so pronunciations differ

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Before dictionaries/standardization words were written how they sounded with different spellings, now we have a shared set of spellings but people don’t talk outloud as often so pronunciations differ

crimsonpoodle@pawb.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 hours ago
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  • Gandalf the Gorsed@feddit.org
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    Pronunciations differ with or without standardised spelling or even with no writing at all. That’s just how language works.

  • tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I know it’s classist to be critical of these things but I would like to stab people in the eye if they prounouce pedestal like “petal stool.”

  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
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    Whaddya mean, we pronuncify diffren-like?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    outloud

    out loud

    Your spelling checker is trash.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@piefed.ca
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    You’re so cooked, A-A RON!

  • Yew@lemmy.world
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    This happened to Arthur, Prince of Wales and Catherine of Aragon. They both had studied Latin, so they could communicate over letters. But their pronunciation was so different they couldn’t speak to each other.

    the couple soon discovered that they had mastered different pronunciations of Latin and so were unable to easily communicate.[40]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur,_Prince_of_Wales

  • CallMeAl (like Alan)@piefed.world
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    but people don’t talk outloud as often
    what

    • cattywampas@lemmy.world
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      What OP meant is that we communicate through writing far more than we ever have.

    • CombatWombat@feddit.online
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      I’m pretty sure OP means people don’t talk out loud as often. On average, people have been speaking 338 words per day fewer for each consecutive year since 2005 (source)

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