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(DIR) Post #AnsH2rEOpSVZ0ZjcQK by foone@digipres.club
2024-11-09T18:20:42Z
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Fun fact: you know that then where you go back to programming language A after doing a lot of work in B, and accidently use B syntax in A?That's how the English language got the letter "H" in "Ghost".
(DIR) Post #AnsHMm7hWvxuxR6Cwa by foone@digipres.club
2024-11-09T18:24:18Z
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The word in middle English was "gost", but The Royal Book in 1484 (one of the earliest books printed in English) spelled it "ghoost" in the prologue.The prologue was written by the German Wynkyn de Worde, who was thinking of Flemish (where the word was "gheest") and merged it with the English "gost", and then it shortened down to "ghost" when the spelling was standardize.
(DIR) Post #AnsHVEbxUpWJd1Hlr6 by foone@digipres.club
2024-11-09T18:25:51Z
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So that "H" is still there in "ghost" because one German guy a half millenia ago tried to write Java using C++ syntax, probably because it was 1am and the candle was burning out
(DIR) Post #AnsHnBPM91lSuEwvEe by even_more_damned_muteKi@mastodon.social
2024-11-09T18:29:04Z
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@foone i love that this post has also answered the question "who up wynkyn de worde"
(DIR) Post #AnsIyVbxTAzyhloB1M by maehem@mastodon.social
2024-11-09T18:42:12Z
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@foone “…tried to write Java using C++ syntax…” had me reminiscing about that time I worked at a startup and spent literally half my hours sanitizing the founders C++ syntax into Java.
(DIR) Post #AnsJdFXM8cDqiz5AXo by ann3nova@corteximplant.com
2024-11-09T18:49:39Z
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@foone I wonder how that played out phonemically. :)
(DIR) Post #AnsJfoNxXkBHNsuPTM by Nine@chitter.xyz
2024-11-09T18:49:44Z
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@foone and if he was trying to write java, so was he
(DIR) Post #AnsPHzUPCsxGb6ws2y by medains@topspicy.social
2024-11-09T19:53:03Z
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@foone same reason we have so many "wh" words. We had "hw" words but the Dutch typesetters thought wh went better with ch sh and th
(DIR) Post #AnsPP0Eqotywwq15hA by flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
2024-11-09T19:54:16Z
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@foone Version 1484.1 release notes:- English is now self-ghosted- Backend updates in preparation for thorn deprecation
(DIR) Post #AnsRczYqKsCmoEAM5Y by pbloem@sigmoid.social
2024-11-09T20:19:14Z
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@foone Epilogue: the word in Dutch and Flemish is now geest, without the h.
(DIR) Post #AnsS7KX6vVTcXYp22K by Crazypedia@pagan.plus
2024-11-09T20:24:21Z
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@foone I think this illustrates why we can't have nice things
(DIR) Post #AnsjBFU9Kn8HGQtKEa by foone@digipres.club
2024-11-09T23:35:57Z
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@mxk no I just spend too much time on wikitionary