• Emerald@lemmy.worldOP
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    Indeed. I literally never use the word “than”. Fuck grammar, “than” looks weird.

    I never say “than”, I say “then”, therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.

    Edit: I wonder what the most downvoted comment is on Lemmy World, am I making history?

    Edit: I’m concerned for everyone who upvoted this

    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      “Language is fluid and constantly changing”

      Our education system is in the toilet and I didn’t pay attention 😂

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      It’s not grammar it’s an entitlement different word. It would be like refusing to call a dog a dog because you think it sounds better to call it a cat.

      Edit - you know what, I’m leaving that auto correct in. Entitlement looks better here to me than entirely.

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        I laterally never use the word “entirely”. Fuck grandma, “entirely” looks weird.

        I never say “entirely”, I say “entitlement”, therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.

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      Unforchunetly, Ingglish speling duzn’t laiyn up with saowndz wun-tuh-wun.

      Spelling things how you say them can lead to people misunderstanding or causing unintended(?) pain.

      • Petter1@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        We write our language (swiss-german) like this 😂 everything is allowed and there are strangely very little misunderstandings. Only bad thing about is, that swiping keyboard rarely work with it.

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          I do with English would switch to phonetic spelling, including the eventi of the speaker, but we’re never going to switch. At least the standardized spelling does have a very minor advantage in terms of disambiguation with homophones. But then we had to go and mess up read/read and lead/lead.

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            Read/ret lead/let -> easy 😜 but how to write “do” I mean it is not a normal spoken “o” and not exactly a “u” like it is a “u” but without (yo)u Write phonetic is more easy in German, I think, or maybe only because it is my birth language 🤔