Isn’t that what Princess Kate has?
(Too soon?)
OK, I feel bad about that. I just thought it was a funny word. I’m going to punish myself a bit.
I saw a diaeresis monkey shit all over his cage at the zoo.
Well, I do hate the way you bring it up in completely unrelated threads, stalker.
Especially since I’m no flavour of communist, anarcho- or not.
Well, being an idiot who can’t tell the difference between anarchism and communism is completely on-brand for you, so I guess you’ve got that going for you.
Fuck off.
Just like all the other trolls.
When I studied Arabic, I learned that there is a distinction made in words pronounced with one consonant versus the same consonant doubled. For a native English speaker, this was puzzling: “happy” has a doubled consonant, but you don’t hear two Ps.
I didn’t really understand until I saw an advert for an upcoming Deep Purple concert. The native Arabic-speaking announcer pronounced the band name as if it were “de-purple,” which sounded like a verb meaning to take the purple out of an object. Suddenly I understood the idea of how pronunciation changes when you have the same consonant twice in a row.
The board’s search engine still works just fine though.
https://boards.straightdope.com/search?q=%40DrDeth%20order%3Alatest
Why? Enough and through are stupid, we should normalize them. Theodore Roosevelt made a minor push for this way back in the 1890s and 1900s but sadly nothing came of it. I don’t use enuf, but I greatly prefer thru.
The English language is kind of a joke. We all know that I thought? Why not fix it?
There are so many words that are borrowed in that should be normalized. Why not start?
In Italian you would (sometimes?) pronounce them both in the middle of a word. Risotto is ree-soht-to
No, they’re not. Especially not if you want to replace them with the spelling of a 5-year-old homeschooled idiot.
Because it’s not broken.
Like it or not enough, though and through are the real words. Enuf, tho and thru are the words of an idiot.
Perhaps because it disrupts comprehension when you have to deal with non-standard spellings. I am reminded of what a neuroscience/linguistics expert told me about aural comprehension by students learning a second language. Everything may be going along swimmingly in the listener’s brain, until a word pops up that is unfamiliar. At that point, comprehension breaks down, even if theoretically it shouldn’t be particularly disrupted, especially if the meaning of the new word is clear from context. Based on my own experience, I posit that non-standard spellings have a similar effect on reading comprehension. I find it MUCH easier to absorb material that is spelled correctly, without the distraction of nonstandard spellings.
I used to think that perhaps the admittedly inconsistent spellings found in English might make developing literacy more difficult. As a matter of scientific study, I do not know the answer. However, my experience in Indonesia, where the spelling is almost entirely phonetic, doesn’t support this. Indonesia always had terrible statistics in terms of both literacy and adult reading habits. So much for the idea that a simplified spelling would help with reading scores.
ETA: All this talk of whether DrD is deliberately setting out to annoy reminds me of the Lewis Carroll poem:
Speak roughly to your little boy
And beat him when he sneezes
He only does it to annoy
And because he knows it teases.
Of course, Carroll was being tongue in cheek, and people don’t sneeze to annoy, but the last two lines seem to describe DrD’s approach pretty well. After all, if you KNOW something annoys other people, even if it seems inconsequential to you, why not be polite and accommodating?
My partner is driven mad when the lining under the lid that seals yogurt and similar containers is left on once the container is open. It makes sense to me to leave it on, but I know it bothers him, so I am careful to remove it. It doesn’t matter that I think that’s silly - I’m just trying to be considerate of others.
Not exactly. An Italian double consonant isn’t pronounced twice; it’s elongated (and the vowel before it truncated). Sort of how you’d (probably) say “bad dog”.
English is about the only language I’m aware of where double consonants (within the same word) don’t generally mean anything (although they can influence the surrounding vowels, like “fated” vs. “fatted”).
You indeed said “property is theft” and your politics bear that out. And you spelled ‘flavor’ wrong.
And I said anarcho-communism- which is a thing and uses “property is theft”-
That isn’t that same as either anarchism or communism, but combines some of both. So, yeah I know the difference, and your slogan and politics mirror anarcho-communism.
Something came of it. We ditched the extra “u” in color, armor, etc. And I admit ‘enuf’ is kinda jarring. Governments use “thru” on signs. catalogue also is now catalog. Sabre is now saber, calibre is now caliber, moustache is now mustache, etc. Quite a few took hold when the board only dropped like one unnecessary letter. Hiccup is a good example.
Yeah, 5-year-old homeschooled idiots like Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, Dr. Melvil Dewey (inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification), Dr. Isaac K. Funk (editor of The Standard Dictionary ), former United States Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, United States Commissioner of Education William Torrey Harris (and editor-in-chief of the 1909 Webster’s New International Dictionary ), publishing magnate Henry Holt, professor Calvin Thomas, and author Mark Twain.[[1](Simplified Spelling Board - Wikipedia)
Simplified Spelling Board - Wikipedia.
Not to mention Teddy Roosevelt. Mark Twain alone would make it valid.
Mark Twain and Teddy are not idiots. And get a better dictionary- “thru” is listed as an informal spelling. Some words are spelled two ways, like it or no.
Yeah, some non-standard spellings, I concur- it can go too far, just like anything. But not Thru or tho. However, they also make spelling much easier, and the english “ough” sound is pronounced so many ways it leads to confusion. Seven ways I think? Dont tell me that doesn’t lead to confusion!
Didn’t say I didn’t. I’ve said it more than once, even.
Fuck off.
Oh, now you can quote Wiki correctly. Looks like your time away did wonders for you.
Of course, nowhere in your cite does the phrase “property is theft” actually occur, so - still a fucking idiot. Maybe another time out will help…
No, please, do anarcho-splain some more to me, DrDolt…
I’ve outright stated what my politics are on this board, and anarcho-communism isn’t it.
Sorry, I forgot to add “or idiot Americans” to that.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Just because you want to stick your tongue up some dead guy’s arse doesn’t give his crackpot spelling reform ideas any actual weight, you stupid motherfucker.
And see this sort of meaningless crap is why the Pit is too often a cesspool of moronity.
That is… an excellent post.
Oh, please, do try and start an ATMB thread about how bad the Pit is, see how that goes for you, fatherfelcher.
What about drive-thru?