SiKboy posted:

Arent the Adademie Francaise largely ignored? I seem to remember that they were insisting on Email being called something else, and being very annoyed that most french speaker just persisted in calling it "Email". Kind of like if the dictionary saw themselves as responsible for creating words, rather than recording the words people actually use.

BonHair posted:

Finally, the Danish computer science community started out with translations of technical terms too, but eventually the English versions won out. I still jokingly say "fastpladelager" instead of harddisk occasionally.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Sorry did you just say you LIKE learning arbitrary gendered articles and conjugations for words?

Antigravitas posted:

No, I'm saying that's how they lure you in.

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The language is best known for its system of noun classes, numbering four in total. They tend to be divided among the following semantic lines:

I – most animate objects, men
II – women, water, fire, violence, and exceptional animals[14]
III – edible fruit and vegetables
IV – miscellaneous (includes things not classifiable in the first three)

SiKboy posted:

Arent the Adademie Francaise largely ignored? I seem to remember that they were insisting on Email being called something else, and being very annoyed that most french speaker just persisted in calling it "Email". Kind of like if the dictionary saw themselves as responsible for creating words, rather than recording the words people actually use.

Carthag Tuek posted:

More maps:
https://imgur.com/a/iVK8a

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Dang, I thought I found the perfect language for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyirbal_language

Alien Arcana posted:

...it's pronounced "blaggard" isn't it. gently caress.

SerialKilldeer posted:

Also, there's a British town called Appletreewick which is pronounced "Aptrick."

Blue Moonlight posted:

Mon dieu! You’ll call it un courrier électronique and you’ll like calling it un courrier électronique.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

You are actually supposed to say the word victualler "vid-ler" or "vit-ler". Not "vick-choo-uh-ler". So it follows that a victualler supplies viddles or vittles.

BonHair posted:

Sorry to burst your bubble, but have you seen French spelling? Danish is certainly no better than English. What happens if that people hate change, and so changing the spelling, even if there's a corresponding sound change, if seen as an affront to reason. And that's how you get stupid spelling over the years. Well, one of the ways, another is loaning words including the spelling from other languages. My favourite in Danish is "chauffør", where the first half is dumb and French (we have no use for C at all in Danish), but we bothered to change eu to ø for phonetic reasons. The sensible solution would have been to write "sjofør", or even keep the French "chauffeur", but no, mix and match wins.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

The UK is full of towns like that. It's basically because depending on where in the UK you are there's like five different root languages for the names that got awkwardly shoehorned into english after the fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNzqgU7na4

OwlFancier posted:

Also generally just cut syllables out, I'm deadly serious when I say that a language where you remove all the vowels and just turn it into grunts is efficient because that's literally how a lot of english dialects and place names work, you sort of combine the vowels and consonants into a guttural syllabic bark and then string them together with glottal stops in between. It's the linguistic equivalent of beating someone to death with a sledgehammer and I love it.

ultrafilter posted:

We are talking about the language that came up with Featherstonehaugh and Cholmondeley here.

ultrafilter posted:

Sentient Data posted:

Remember, English spelling is so dumb they they used to hold national contests to find kids that made the fewest spelling errors.

Phanatic posted:

Same thing with corn. It used to literally just mean the grain, hence "barleycorn," the corn of the barley plant. Now it's a specific grain.

Anticheese posted:

I think they wanted to call email a courriel

Carbon dioxide posted:

By the way it's called orange in English because "a naranj" shifted to "an aranj" which then turned into "an orange".

redleader posted:

it's understandable too. are you going to say "chestesterton-west-upon-harrickhamshire" all the time, or are you naturally going to gradually cut bits out until you end up pronouncing it "cheshickshire"?

Outrail posted:

I just assumed it was pronounced 'worcestershire'.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Dang, I thought I found the perfect language for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyirbal_language

Red Bones posted:

My dad once overheard an American pronouncing Loughborough as 'loogabarooga' when he was trying to buy a train ticket. Points for effort, I suppose.

steinrokkan posted:

Wouce

BonHair posted:

I'm assuming the correct way is "lofbro"?

Nessus posted:

I thought it usually refers to wheat, and only in the States is it "corn." Elsewhere the same plant is maize.

BonHair posted:

I'm assuming the correct way is "lofbro"?

Hobnob posted:

Always fun watching the food network for the number of ways "worcestershire sauce" gets pronounced.

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