Post ATVRV7Bs54Jah01FmC by badsynthesis@infosec.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #ATVROqZ8ygnHOWuqXo by clacke@libranet.de
       2023-03-11T03:54:58Z
       
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       It's probably the most common pronunciation among native speakers and it makes the most sense with like "soft before i" thumb rules and stuff like that ...But it's stuck in my head that gyroscope should be /guyroscope/ and not /jyroscope/. It's even a soft g in Swedish, /yüroskawp/, so that's not where I'm getting it from either.I guess I just have a higher expectation on English to stick closer to the Greek when it's a Greek root.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATVROzSNvBjcyAp4l6 by unixsmurf@mastodon.social
       2023-03-11T10:02:22Z
       
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       @clackeTrying to see rules in the English language is like trying to see intelligence in chatgpt.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATVRP0dlWMQsdl9g8W by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
       2023-03-11T12:36:42Z
       
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       @unixsmurf @clacke English isn't that hard. I was speaking it by the age of 3 or so.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATVRV7Bs54Jah01FmC by badsynthesis@infosec.exchange
       2023-03-11T06:41:12Z
       
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       @clacke English is basically "take old norse, let simmer for a century or two. Throw in a big wallop of French, let simmer for half a millenium", the greek roots seem long gone ;)
       
 (DIR) Post #ATVRV7vbL2tWypPm3U by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
       2023-03-11T12:37:51Z
       
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       @badsynthesis @clacke Still some scraps of Celtic origin in there too, and don't forget the Saxons.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATVTTQYlINJM5u36jw by unixsmurf@mastodon.social
       2023-03-11T12:59:58Z
       
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       @mansrI said nothing about it being difficult.@clacke