• optional@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Wy do yu insist so strongly on writing thre mor letters that do nothing to chang the pronunciaton of the word? Ar yu French?

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      If ther’s on thing I hat, it’s words ending with silent e’s. And whil we’r at it, we ned to get rid of doubl e’s as well.

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        I don’t mind silent e’s, they do actually change the way words are pronounced at least.

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          They work like an e after a vowel, making it a long vowel, but with a letter in between. They have absolutely no reason to exist as haet is pronounced the same as hate but has the letters in a more logical order.

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            In that persons comment, they removed several “silent” e’s, but all but one changed the word’s pronunciation. I was talking about them. Like the E in hate. It doesn’t make a sound itself, so isn’t it still silent?

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              It’s not silent, but in the wrong place. Haet would be more correct, as it changes the pronunciation from [hæt] to [heɪt]. Hait might be an even better way to write it (see also: bait, maid, laid etc.)

              English is a weird language.

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                English is three languages wearing a trench coat and pretending to be one.

                [Off topic:]

                I just now realized that the word “trench” is in “trench coat”.

                […] heavy-duty fabric,[1] originally developed for British Army officers before the First World War, and becoming popular while used in the trenches, hence the name trench coat.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_coat

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                    In my mind, “trench coat” was always a single word. I never noticed that it is two words, one of them being trench, as in war infrastructure. It was interesting to find that out.

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        Dubl e’s mak sens thou. Ther’s a diffrenc between feed and fed, or between need and Ned. The dublin maks the E longer.

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            So we should write fiid and niid then? In German, if you wanted a word that’s pronounced like the English need, you’d write nied.

            Anyhow, just removing the second e without replacement would not help in knowing how to pronounce the word by reading it.

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              Nah, let the native speakers decide how they want to write their language. I just wanted to take a bit of a jab towards how messed up their vowels are.