• @[email protected]
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        165 months ago

        Man the english language makes no sense.

        the sound in lose is the same sound as we are taught “oo” makes.

        Couldn’t a more straightforward language be chosen as the global one ffs

        • Flying Squid
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          115 months ago

          My father (who had a PhD in English) used to tell me that “ghoti” was pronounced “fish”

          GH as in rouGH
          O as in wOmen
          TI as in raTIon

          • @[email protected]
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            35 months ago

            How do you pronounce women? When I put those sounds together it makes more of a fush or fosh than fish .

            Or do you say fish different than me?

            • Flying Squid
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              115 months ago

              “Wih-men.” I think you’re thinking of woman, the singular version of the word.

          • Dr. Bluefall
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            15 months ago

            That isn’t really consistent with English orthography.

            But you can write “pfysche”, and that would be consistent with English.

        • @Nutteman
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          55 months ago

          Looks like we can thank the Dutch language for that one

          • @[email protected]
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            65 months ago

            Looks like loose is from Germanic/Old Norse, “laus”

            And lose is from Old English, “los”

            Also looks like I can’t stand to look at either of these words for a few day now.

            • @Nutteman
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              From my tiny amount of research eventually it passed through the Dutch layer and ended up as “loose” from those origin points before being adopted into english

        • @vxx
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          There’s also loose and they sound the same but mean different things.

          Loose is when your pants is too wide.

          Lose is when the pants were so wide that you lost them.

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            Lucy’s loose legwear lost latitude, leisurely lowering, leaving Lucy’s legs largely liberated. Lamentably, Lucy’s lost leggings landed listlessly, loitering lifelessly.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

            Man looking a thesaurus is fun Lol

          • @MutilationWave
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            They don’t sound the same at all though.

            Lose - looze

            Loose - luice

            • @vxx
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              Interesting, I didn’t know that. FYI, there’s the phonetic transcription that saves us from using other words to describe a pronunciation.

              luːz - lose

              luːs - loose

          • @[email protected]
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            15 months ago

            I think they sound different, loose ends with a curt “s” sound, while lose ends with a longer “z” sound.

            • Jojo, Lady of the West
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              Ooh, also its accent, this is not a thing couplet for me

              Discount, viscount, load and broad,
              Toward, to forward, to reward,

              Nor it’s immediate predecessor,

              Banquet is not nearly parquet,
              Which exactly rhymes with khaki.

              Parquet isn’t in my vocabulary, but doesn’t seem to rhyme with khaki in any common dialect either way.