People using ß and äëïöü and other aestheticy letters in their names always get confused when I type/say their name the way it would actually be pronounced.
For example, some person with no grasp on anything but English who has a name like “ßäëïöü” would be extremely confused when I pronounce it like “Ss-ah-eh-ee-ey-ee” after I put it through Google Translate to see what the text-to-speech pronounces it as.
“ßäëïöü, watch out!”
“What the fuck is a ss—!” *dead*
More people need to learn. The dots aren’t there for aesthetic, kiddo.
look man im a native english speaker and i’ve been mispronouncing a crap ton of words because i never looked up the pronunciation for any of them but if you make fun of how a foreigner pronounces an english word either because of their accent or having never heard that word before i will fucking fight you because english has shitty pronunciation rules and none of them make sense fuck off
Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
I think basic programming and computer science should be considered part of basic computer literacy and should be part of common knowledge given how much computers influence us and how much their influence will grow. It should be taught in school to a basic degree as a required course.
I also think we should be taught one second language starting really early and have the option to add a second foreign language later in school. There’s no reason we should only be knowing one language.
Also life skills like financial literacy, actually good sex ed, and good mental and physical health information. School is supposed to teach us what we need to know to be successful, and those are arguably the most essential. Math doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to rent a place to live or you die of something preventable.
I think basic programming and computer science should be considered part of basic computer literacy and should be part of common knowledge given how much computers influence us and how much their influence will grow. It should be taught in school to a basic degree as a required course.
I also think we should be taught one second language starting really early and have the option to add a second foreign language later in school. There’s no reason we should only be knowing one language.
When people go off about how English is the worst language, I just wanna point out a few things:
– Our future tense requires only one word (looking at you, Spanish)
– Words don’t change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese)
– We don’t live in some bizarre Beauty And The Beast world where we give inanimate objects genders (romance languages, German)
– Likewise, we don’t have have two different words for “they” because we don’t care whether “they” were male or female (Spanish, French)
– There’s no formal “you” because we don’t play mind games about whether or not we respect you (Spanish, German)
– We don’t alter the whole fucking language based on how much we respect you (Japanese)
– The letters and sounds might not be consistent, but at least we have letters, not just pictures (Mandarin)
– We don’t have a fucking stupid tense specifically for talking to two people because some idiot decided that a two-person tense was necessary(Arabic)
So yeah, I think we’re doing okay as a language
Oh and some of our plurals are irregular, but at least it’s not like every goddamn plural is an entirely new word so you have to learn every word twice
At least it’s not like that, right? Right, Arabic? WHAT A DUMB IDEA THAT WOULD BE, HUH, ARABIC?
But we do kinda have the tone thing. Like record and record, resume and resume, etc
For a few words, but you can mispronounce a lot and still get away with it. I’m referring to this:
I love this post
As someone who struggled SO HARD to remember arbitrary gender for inanimate objects learning French (IS THIS CHAIR FEMALE OR MALE? IT’S A FUCKING CHAIR) I’m so glad to see English standing up for itself for once.
Just a note, it’s not the formal you we’ve (mostly) eliminated in English, it’s the informal thou.
The reason ‘thy’, ‘thine’, and ‘thou’ still exist in things like prayers, is because when you address God it’s supposed to be an intimate relationship!
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