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yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 days ago

Wendnesday

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Wendnesday

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yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 days ago
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  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 days ago

    Maybe we should spell it: D-A-Y-O-F-W-I-N-D ?

  • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works
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    We should hold a vote to decide the spelling we can hold it next chewsday.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    My brain would also like to propose a new spelling+pronunciation for “remember”: rember

    • ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 days ago

      Or at least streamline “forget”: dismember

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    you can, and you should

    english has no authority that regulates the language, it’s up to us to do the spelling reforms

    i spell it wensday :3

    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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      10 days ago

      What happened to wensday :1 and :2?

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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      9 days ago

      English tends to be very etymological with its spelling but i support people simplifying it tbh

      Not sáing ðat ú kant mák úr ón ryting sistem for Inglix end úz it

  • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    Might’ve evolved like that eventually if we hadn’t stopped writing and type-setting by hand instead of using magical misspelling detection machines with strict spelling rules.

    Midweek is superior anyway.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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      I mean, spellings of words change all the time. Hell, when I was in school you’d lose points on papers for spelling “doughnut” as “donut”, but now that shorter version is concidered a correct spelling and is no longer tagged by spell check.

      We as a society can literally will this spelling to be concidered correct through shear usage.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        Heehee concidered and shear. You literally made me go back and spellcheck your whole comment in case I’d missed more.

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          I have never been a good speller, and this app nor my phones keyboard do spellchecking.

          • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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            Well I thought the joke I assumed you were making was a good fit for your point, which I agree with btw. Spellcheck wouldn’t catch “shear” anyway, that’s the cutting one.

            The see-through one has ee.

            Why “sheer” is also the one you meant, meaning utter or complete, I don’t know.

            English.

  • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    You’re gonna upset Woden with this kind of blasphemy.

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.net
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    because in english you have “silent letters” letters that you write but dont say.

    they are unnecessary, please improve the language.

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      the language is fine, the spelling just needs updating. which is easy, we just pick a dialect of english and base it on that.

      which dialect? well, how about indian english. that seems fair.

    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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      NO U

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    English is the imperial system of phonetics (well, French is worse)

    https://youtube.com/shorts/Qxohw-X4wDM

  • Anna@lemmy.ml
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    No!!! That would make way too much sense for these language prudes… \s

  • obnomus@lemmy.ml
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    What do u mean we can’t spell it, I have been doing it my whole life.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    abolish having names for days, start calling them day1->day2 so on.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    Sounds good dood

  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de
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    wy dont yu fall on yor sord? huh?

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    And here I was about to propose a nightsday but whatever I’ll take it.

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    Wensdy.

    Are the rest of you out there really pronouncing the a in the days? Even in sentences? The only time I hear myself do it is if I’m listing them and paying attention. Might just be me though.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yes? “Day” is not pronounced “dee” AFAIK.

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        When I say “day” or “today” I pronounce it fully, but when saying the names in conversation, it’s more like “I’ll see you Tuesdy at noon.”

        Judging by reactions, it’s just, maybe SoCal? Or maybe just me.

        • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          I’m not sure which section of SoCal you’re referring to, but SD’s about as South as one can get before TJ and everyone here seems to pronounce it “tūzdā” not “tūzdi”. 😅🤷🏽‍♂️

      • unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I think a lot of Brits pronounce it that way

    • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
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      It is probably accent dependent. Where I live people pronounce it like “weddinsday”

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