I remember talking to these girls on discord, and they kept talking about their new fox ears, and then when they showed me, they were bunny ears on a headband. That’s when I realized they were saying faux ears.
English here. I’m with you. I’m not sure if we stole the idea from French, but we do have a lot of spellings reflecting obsolete pronunciations like they do, if not a load of other funny orthographic habits.
Noah Webster did try to fix things a little for the US, but his success was limited. And of course, the rest of the Anglosphere hasn’t bothered.
(We do seem to have adopted “jail” over “gaol” though, if not a couple of others.)
I’m curious, what is it?
[ faux pas ]
Pronounce both x(ks) and s. That’s how I believed it to be pronounced until 30s lmao
Fox-Pass. Yes, people here really say it like that.
I remember talking to these girls on discord, and they kept talking about their new fox ears, and then when they showed me, they were bunny ears on a headband. That’s when I realized they were saying faux ears.
I blame the French for that, if you want a word to be pronounced a certain way don’t spell it totally different.
I urgently need to know if you’re at the very least German, because if you’re anglophone that statement is straight up against the law.
English here. I’m with you. I’m not sure if we stole the idea from French, but we do have a lot of spellings reflecting obsolete pronunciations like they do, if not a load of other funny orthographic habits.
Noah Webster did try to fix things a little for the US, but his success was limited. And of course, the rest of the Anglosphere hasn’t bothered.
(We do seem to have adopted “jail” over “gaol” though, if not a couple of others.)
Wenn es so dringend ist hättest du auch mein Profil checken können.
Schönen Tag noch.
Click through something for a social media conversation? Gross.
I did Google Translate that, full disclosure.
What knock-off Google Translate clone did you use?
"If it’s that urgent, you could have checked my profile.
Have a nice day."
Yeah, friend, that’s what I got, too.
What did you think I got? This is a very confusing response. Maybe I should put it back through Translate. Hold on.
There, Translateception.
France has many linguistic crimes to answer for…
English spelling can be difficult as well: http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html