• Man the english language makes no sense.

          the sound in lose is the same sound as we are taught “oo” makes.

          Couldn’t a more straightforward language be chosen as the global one ffs

          • Flying Squid
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            My father (who had a PhD in English) used to tell me that “ghoti” was pronounced “fish”

            GH as in rouGH
            O as in wOmen
            TI as in raTIon

            • @Sc00ter@lemm.ee
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              How do you pronounce women? When I put those sounds together it makes more of a fush or fosh than fish .

              Or do you say fish different than me?

              • Flying Squid
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                114 months ago

                “Wih-men.” I think you’re thinking of woman, the singular version of the word.

            • Dr. Bluefall
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              That isn’t really consistent with English orthography.

              But you can write “pfysche”, and that would be consistent with English.

          • @vxx@lemmy.world
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            There’s also loose and they sound the same but mean different things.

            Loose is when your pants is too wide.

            Lose is when the pants were so wide that you lost them.

            • @FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              Lucy’s loose legwear lost latitude, leisurely lowering, leaving Lucy’s legs largely liberated. Lamentably, Lucy’s lost leggings landed listlessly, loitering lifelessly.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

              Man looking a thesaurus is fun Lol

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                Interesting, I didn’t know that. FYI, there’s the phonetic transcription that saves us from using other words to describe a pronunciation.

                luːz - lose

                luːs - loose

            • @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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              14 months ago

              I think they sound different, loose ends with a curt “s” sound, while lose ends with a longer “z” sound.

              • Jojo, Lady of the West
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                Ooh, also its accent, this is not a thing couplet for me

                Discount, viscount, load and broad,
                Toward, to forward, to reward,

                Nor it’s immediate predecessor,

                Banquet is not nearly parquet,
                Which exactly rhymes with khaki.

                Parquet isn’t in my vocabulary, but doesn’t seem to rhyme with khaki in any common dialect either way.

    • Flying Squid
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      When I was a kid, Scholastic did a “kids pick the president” poll. It was 1984 and John Glenn was running. I voted for him because he was an astronaut and The Right Stuff had come out a year before so I also thought he was basically Ed Harris. (I was 7.)

      Jesse Jackson won. I was disappointed at the time. I’m not a fan of Jackson’s, but I’d still have taken him over 4 more years of Reagan.

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      Yeah, but maybe one day President Kelly? He seems like a interesting person, though I don’t know all of his policy stances