Post AtIHB7Im20DdPBVlcu by ridetheory@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AtFwvrxiOXT05SC42q by pluralistic@mamot.fr
       2025-04-19T17:06:22Z
       
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       I also can't remember how many ems are in 'accommodate.'
       
 (DIR) Post #AtG5rkAqJCC8MSRR5s by geonz@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-04-19T17:34:18Z
       
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       @pluralistic as a special ed teacher, I *had* to memorize that there's no "coma" in ithe word, and it's like "Commode."
       
 (DIR) Post #AtG5rkkeA4po9VC1tw by NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social
       2025-04-19T18:15:02Z
       
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       @geonz @pluralistic Interesting. I wonder why the double-M shortens the O, rather than changing the stress in comma vs coma. 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #AtG5rlSxVKHQMvvPyC by TobyBartels@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-04-19T18:38:54Z
       
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       @NudelnAlDente @geonz @pluralisticThe rule that doubled consonants go after short vowels, while single consonants go after long vowels, is common in Germanic languages.  I think that the double consonants were originally doubled in pronunciation, so this kept syllables of a consistent total length; @yvanspijk might know about this.  German has the purest form of the rule, where it's used even in the last syllable of a word, while in English a final syllable with a single vowel is short unless it's followed by a silent E (which used to be pronounced, making it no longer the final syllable).  English is inconsistent about this in words of Latin and French origin; the spelling usually follows the language it's borrowed from, but the pronunciation often follows this rule if the word is old enough (like ‘coma’, 17th century, and ‘comma’, 16th century, both from Greek through Latin).  English is also weird in that the short and long vowels have very different pronunciations now, since the long vowels went through the Great Vowel Shift and the short vowels mostly didn't.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtHk58pW8jjLv5N0BU by Oggie@woof.group
       2025-04-19T18:18:58Z
       
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       @NudelnAlDente @geonz @pluralistic At this point I'm pretty sure all of english pronounciation is all some sort of awful joke being played on all of us.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtHk59vw2MSTLHNdpI by NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social
       2025-04-19T18:34:42Z
       
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       @Oggie @geonz @pluralistic As a language, English is in fact 3 languages in a trenchcoat. It's also annoyingly orthographically deep so bloody impossible to decode pronunciation from the written form. I am forever grateful I learned it as a first language because I probably would have thrown it out the window in a fit of pique if I'd had to learn it later in life. 🤯
       
 (DIR) Post #AtHk5B0w1G3Gh4j9G4 by davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social
       2025-04-20T06:06:27Z
       
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       @NudelnAlDente @Oggie @geonz @pluralistic "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."--James D. Nicoll
       
 (DIR) Post #AtIHB7Im20DdPBVlcu by ridetheory@mastodon.social
       2025-04-19T20:05:29Z
       
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       @pluralistic "Whenever I write banana, I can't stop" -- SLUGGOhttps://mastodon.social/@nancycomics/114341870501509040