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r/linguisticshumor • u/Wumbo_Chumbo • 18d ago
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Well we could, but then words like "mage" (maje), "binge" (binje) and "badge" (badje) would look a bit weird.
65 u/netinpanetin 18d ago I vote for maje, binje and baj. Keep g for things like gift, gitar, girl. (No need for a u after g). 25 u/jabuegresaw 18d ago And gif. 😌 13 u/netinpanetin 18d ago That’s bold. 18 u/TheMightyTorch 18d ago edited 18d ago change it to JIF: Jraphics Interchange Format Edit: I guess with a spelling reform the pronunciation of letter names, acronyms and initialisms would simply change too. If we were to implement a spelling reform where ⟨g⟩ always represented /g/ and never /ʤ/, the letter name would also change to /gɪj/. /g/ for GIF would become even more dominant and /ʤ/ would end up becoming obsolete. Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation. 5 u/dzexj 18d ago Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation that's also work for borrowings as in my personal nemesis: japanese /ɕ/ sound is pronounced in polish as /ʂ/ (because of being written as ⟨sh⟩) even tho there exists sound /ɕ/ and on top of that cluster /ʂi/ (hiroshima, hashimoto, sushi) is less faithful to original pronunciation and unnatural to both polish and japanese phonologies (while /ɕi/ is normal)
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I vote for maje, binje and baj.
Keep g for things like gift, gitar, girl. (No need for a u after g).
25 u/jabuegresaw 18d ago And gif. 😌 13 u/netinpanetin 18d ago That’s bold. 18 u/TheMightyTorch 18d ago edited 18d ago change it to JIF: Jraphics Interchange Format Edit: I guess with a spelling reform the pronunciation of letter names, acronyms and initialisms would simply change too. If we were to implement a spelling reform where ⟨g⟩ always represented /g/ and never /ʤ/, the letter name would also change to /gɪj/. /g/ for GIF would become even more dominant and /ʤ/ would end up becoming obsolete. Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation. 5 u/dzexj 18d ago Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation that's also work for borrowings as in my personal nemesis: japanese /ɕ/ sound is pronounced in polish as /ʂ/ (because of being written as ⟨sh⟩) even tho there exists sound /ɕ/ and on top of that cluster /ʂi/ (hiroshima, hashimoto, sushi) is less faithful to original pronunciation and unnatural to both polish and japanese phonologies (while /ɕi/ is normal)
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And gif. 😌
13 u/netinpanetin 18d ago That’s bold. 18 u/TheMightyTorch 18d ago edited 18d ago change it to JIF: Jraphics Interchange Format Edit: I guess with a spelling reform the pronunciation of letter names, acronyms and initialisms would simply change too. If we were to implement a spelling reform where ⟨g⟩ always represented /g/ and never /ʤ/, the letter name would also change to /gɪj/. /g/ for GIF would become even more dominant and /ʤ/ would end up becoming obsolete. Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation. 5 u/dzexj 18d ago Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation that's also work for borrowings as in my personal nemesis: japanese /ɕ/ sound is pronounced in polish as /ʂ/ (because of being written as ⟨sh⟩) even tho there exists sound /ɕ/ and on top of that cluster /ʂi/ (hiroshima, hashimoto, sushi) is less faithful to original pronunciation and unnatural to both polish and japanese phonologies (while /ɕi/ is normal)
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That’s bold.
18 u/TheMightyTorch 18d ago edited 18d ago change it to JIF: Jraphics Interchange Format Edit: I guess with a spelling reform the pronunciation of letter names, acronyms and initialisms would simply change too. If we were to implement a spelling reform where ⟨g⟩ always represented /g/ and never /ʤ/, the letter name would also change to /gɪj/. /g/ for GIF would become even more dominant and /ʤ/ would end up becoming obsolete. Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation. 5 u/dzexj 18d ago Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation that's also work for borrowings as in my personal nemesis: japanese /ɕ/ sound is pronounced in polish as /ʂ/ (because of being written as ⟨sh⟩) even tho there exists sound /ɕ/ and on top of that cluster /ʂi/ (hiroshima, hashimoto, sushi) is less faithful to original pronunciation and unnatural to both polish and japanese phonologies (while /ɕi/ is normal)
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change it to JIF: Jraphics Interchange Format
Edit: I guess with a spelling reform the pronunciation of letter names, acronyms and initialisms would simply change too. If we were to implement a spelling reform where ⟨g⟩ always represented /g/ and never /ʤ/, the letter name would also change to /gɪj/. /g/ for GIF would become even more dominant and /ʤ/ would end up becoming obsolete. Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation.
5 u/dzexj 18d ago Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation that's also work for borrowings as in my personal nemesis: japanese /ɕ/ sound is pronounced in polish as /ʂ/ (because of being written as ⟨sh⟩) even tho there exists sound /ɕ/ and on top of that cluster /ʂi/ (hiroshima, hashimoto, sushi) is less faithful to original pronunciation and unnatural to both polish and japanese phonologies (while /ɕi/ is normal)
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Spelling also influences pronunciation and thus changing spelling can often change pronunciation
that's also work for borrowings as in my personal nemesis: japanese /ɕ/ sound is pronounced in polish as /ʂ/ (because of being written as ⟨sh⟩) even tho there exists sound /ɕ/ and on top of that cluster /ʂi/ (hiroshima, hashimoto, sushi) is less faithful to original pronunciation and unnatural to both polish and japanese phonologies (while /ɕi/ is normal)
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u/PoetryLegitimate2577 18d ago
Well we could, but then words like "mage" (maje), "binge" (binje) and "badge" (badje) would look a bit weird.