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DaveC426913 said:Q: How do you pronounce ghoti?
A: Fish.
Laugh
Women
Ambition
qspeechc said:Fallacy started by Shaw, I think. gh only has an f sound at the end of a word, never at the beginning. The same with ti, which only has the sh sound in -ition, which you can't willy-nilly break up. So a word like ghoti could never exist in English.
DaveC426913 said:While I'll grant that all examples of gh pronounced as 'f' are at the end of a word, is that a rule, or merely a precendent? Once the precedent is established, who is to say how it can or cannot be used?
nismaratwork said:If you start a trend of neo-proto-english that I need to learn to "keep up", I'm going to be pissed. :tongue:
Laughter.qspeechc said:gh only has an f sound at the end of a word,
DaveC426913 said:That's kind of what I thought qspeechc was trying to do. Do you suppose there's really a rule that says 'gh is only pronounced 'f' if at the end of a word?
He's simply saying you are inventing rules where there are none.qspeechc said:What on Earth is "neo-proto-English"?, please explain for the slow people like me.
qspeechc said:I would like you to give an English words that starts with a gh that is pronounced as f. There isn't.
Which, as you have been shown, is not true. So be careful with those rules of yours.gh only has an f sound at the end of a word
DaveC426913 said:He's simply saying you are inventing rules where there are none.
The fact that no English words start with xqh does not mean there is a rule that says no english word can start with xqh.
Didn't say there was.
What you did say is:
Which, as you have been shown, is not true. So be careful with those rules of yours.
DaveC426913 said:He's simply saying you are inventing rules where there are none.
DaveC426913 said:The fact that no English words start with xqh does not mean there is a rule that says no english word can start with xqh.
DaveC426913 said:What you did say is:
Which, as you have been shown, is not true. So be careful with those rules of yours.
qspeechc said:In laughter, the -ter is an obvious suffix to the root word laugh.
nismaratwork said:You don't have much in the way of a sense of humor do you?
qspeechc said:I suppose someone will invent such a word then. I await it eagerly. How exactly would it be pronounced? That's too many consonants in a row, by the way.
qspeechc said:Oh, I don't know. What do think I was trying to do here:
:D
qspeechc said:...I am not inventing rules. I never said anything was a rule. I merely stated the fact that...
First you said it is a fallacy, then you said it could not exist.Fallacy started by Shaw ... So a word like ghoti could never exist in English.
Still completely missing the point...qspeechc said:O-kay. I suppose someone will invent such a word then.
And the point that lack of precedent =/= rule still stands.qspeechc said:Even if you are correct it changes nothing, because the point that gh at the beginning of a word never has the f sound still stands.
Perhaps this is not the thread for you then...qspeechc said:Nevertheless, if anyone wants to complicate English spelling for no good reason he is welcome to do so. Don't expect me to be a follower.
qspeechc said:If you want to multiply the difficulties of English spelling then you are welcome to cut such a path.
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Nevertheless, if anyone wants to complicate English spelling for no good reason he is welcome to do so. Don't expect me to be a follower.
qspeechc said:I thought your point was that English spelling is odd; why make it even worse by creating new things with no precedent?
Looks like I can't hit the side of a barn.Ivan Seeking said:In 2009, ABC News listed 112 different ways to spell Gaddafi
You have to repeat yourself so many times because you insist on having the exclusive viewpoint on it.qspeechc said:I don't know why I have had to repeat myself so many times on this.
By what logic do you arrive at the conclusion that it is a "bleeding obvious" rule? Is there fine print hidden in the frills of the letter 'g' that I'm not seeing on my monitor?qspeechc said:No, indeed, it has not been set down in any book as a rule that a gh at the beginning of a word can never have the f sound, probably because it's too bleeding obvious
BobG said:Dropping the hyphen in 'e-mail' is a disturbing trend.
BobG said:I just found out that I've been misspelling email and cellphone since 3AM EDT, 19 Mar! (http://www.aces2011.org/sessions/18/the-ap-stylebook-editors-visit-aces-2011/ )
Dropping the hyphen in 'e-mail' is a disturbing trend. How long until we drop the 'e', making it impossible to tell if we're reading mail on our computer or mail that was delivered by the postman?
And what's with deleting the space between 'cell' and 'phone'?! Don't they know that space is cheap?! Just look at Detroit! There's all kinds of empty space in Detroit, seeing as how their population has dropped from 2 million to just 700 thousand. You could fit an entire city in the empty space left in Detroit. I think people from Detroit should use two spaces when they spell 'cell phone'!
Edit: PF obviously disagrees with my suggestion, as it won't display extra spaces. Maybe we could just call a cellphone a phone and the other kind of phone a landline.
DaveC426913 said:I have an editor friend who has been watching the evolution over the years.
It has gone through distinct phases of correctness:
Electronic Mail
Speaking of which, is anybody else old enough to remember when the correct way to spell today was to-day? That's how they taught us in Grade 1.
BobG said:mail that was delivered by the postman
Borek said:What's that?
nismaratwork said:I think it involved snails and licking pieces of paper. I don't know...
nismaratwork said:I think it involved snails and licking pieces of paper. I don't know...
Borek said:Licking paper? :yuck:
What is it with these people, they will lick everything.
nismaratwork said:I just lick the keyboard for good luck, yeah it's teeming with bugs, but so what?! *slurp* :tongue2:
DaveC426913 said:I was going to post a link to the Breyer's Ice Cream ad, but
a] it is not G-rated and arguably NSFW, and
b] it is a hoax.
qspeechc said:I won the argument.
Btw, I'm the chap on top.
Just Google for the image.nismaratwork said:PM me, I don't mind, and I could use a good laugh.
qspeechc said:I won the argument.
[PLAIN]http://www.deviantart.com/download/103449383/I_win_by_peterpandagirl.png
Btw, I'm the chap on top.