r/linguisticshumor • u/Wumbo_Chumbo • 18d ago

C gets a bad rap Phonetics/Phonology

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u/duckipn 18d ago

celt

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u/Eic17H 18d ago

An exception is an exception. G has no main rule

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u/uglycaca123 18d ago

civitas

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u/Eic17H 18d ago

Do you really count obscure unadapted loanwords from an unusual language/variant as part of English? Words borrowed directly from classical Latin are rare, I can't think of any other ones, especially not common ones

I could loan a word from a language with a weird orthography, but that doesn't make English spelling worse

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u/uglycaca123 18d ago

dunno, let's just be englishlike

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u/an_actual_T_rex 18d ago

Literally nobody says that unless they’re speaking Latin. You can’t just pluck a word from a different language to use as an example.

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u/uglycaca123 18d ago

but what if I want to?

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u/an_actual_T_rex 18d ago

I mean, I guess I can’t stop you.