Every once in a while I sometimes think about remaking the English writing system, as is normal I’m sure😅, and I wonder what would be the most useful revision of punctuation or phonetic.

  • @mojofrododojo
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    11 year ago

    because wood or rock don’t work in the other instances. Hand me that rock (person is holding spectacles) - you’d say - and they’d look at you like you had brain worms. Or coming home from a warm afternoon, walking in the house and remarking “I SURE COULD USE A BIG WOOD OF ICED TEA”, because again, that makes no sense. I kid, I kid, sometimes I like to let the obvious response out even though it’s the brain worms talking.

    That said, your other point - not so much - Goblet chalice beaker stein mug cup yeah there aren’t words for these things at all.