• funnystuff97@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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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      6 months ago

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

      • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        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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          6 months ago

          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?

          • optional@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            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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              6 months ago

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

              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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      6 months ago

      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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          6 months ago

          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.