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Shadow_Strike wrote:Potato, potahto. But if you say potahto I'll seriously have to gank you. One thing that gets me, is how you manage to get an "o" sound of "a" or "dock" out of "dak"
Or idear. Theres no "r" there. Its idea. But people seem to stick random letters or omit random letters or something.
It must be a favorite (or favourite, I understand this is correct spelling now) past time for people.

...They do it because words are not spelled the whey dey ar pronownsed. Oderwise we beez ritin' liek orkz.

As a user of english as a second language I had hell trying to study phonetics and the gazzillions of words not following them.
But my favorite (notice my US corrupted spelling) words are Kansas and Arkansas...... Why oh God! Why US citizens can´t use the same sound for the same letters?????????

M.

Riddle me this:

Dough and trough

"ghoti," an alternative spelling of fish, according to certain English pronunciations: GH as in "laugh," O as in "women" and TI as in "nation."

Why US citizens can´t use the same sound for the same letters?????????

Ahem. The language in question is English, not American (although our colonial cousins have simplified some things; color for colour, etc).

malfred wrote:Riddle me this:

Dough and trough

Combine them both and you get draught (beer)!

Jazz is for Losers wrote:

stingray wrote:I come from the part of the UK where the chaps who wrote the game come from, and it is definitely, 100%, no argument about it, pronounced 'dakka as in 'hacker''. You may pronounce it as you wish, but anyone in Nottingham who says 'dakka as in 'docker' or 'hawker'' would be laughed out of the pub.

LIAR! Your little flag clearly states that you're made in the EU. Probably Brussels.

You get flags based on the IP of the computer where your post came from. I have flags from the UK where I live, from the US via the office secure virtual network, and from Japan where I visited.

stingray wrote:"ghoti," an alternative spelling of fish, according to certain English pronunciations: GH as in "laugh," O as in "women" and TI as in "nation."

Why US citizens can´t use the same sound for the same letters?????????

Ahem. The language in question is English, not American (although our colonial cousins have simplified some things; color for colour, etc).

Got in himmel! Don´t tell me that the perfidous Albion also says ar-kan-saw? degenerates, you are a bunch of degenerates, what´s next spelling armour whitout an u?

M.

Miguelsan wrote:

Got in himmel! Don´t tell me that the perfidous Albion also says ar-kan-saw? degenerates, you are a bunch of degenerates, what´s next spelling armour whitout an u?

M.

Well, we don't like to dictate how the colonies pronounce their own place names. Bear in mind I come from a place called Worcestershire that is pronounced 'wus te sher'...

Even here in the "colonies" we pronounce things different depending on where you are. Houston, Texas is Yhoo-sten but Houston St. in New York is Howse-ton (like House ton).

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Ozymandias wrote:Houston St. in New York is Howse-ton (like House ton).

Oh, man, street names in Chicago are pronounced wackily. Paulina is Paw-line-ah, Devon is Du-vahn, etc.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Lulzcannon?


And the next person who says 'Libarian' or 'Turrent' dies...

BYE

Gernade.

Artillerary.
Stragety.
Nuculear.

rouge trader
calvary

And what about gorilla warfare instear of GUERRilla warfare? that´s a favoUrite of a lot of players. But you want something wacky? try speaking to a japanese using the correct english pronuntiation for words written in english in the japanese language. Talk about mangling the language ugh!

M.

malfred wrote:rouge trader
calvary

Calvary I can understand (even if it is wrong) but Rouge Trader?? I'm picturing Space-faring Mary Kay or Avon salesmen.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Miguelsan, I wouldn't call that "mangling." It happens to pretty much all loan words in any language. Ask them what they think of people pronouncing "shogun" as "sho-gahn," or what the French think of oh, any number of words English has mangled.

My personal pick: "ordinance" instead of "ordnance."

In Japanese they take foreign loan words from various western languages for things or concepts they din't have, put them into Japanese pronunciation and spell them with Katanaka. Take the word "arubeyeto", derived from the German "arbeit" meaning work -- the Japanese use that for part-time work.

They also like to contract and combine words, for example -- "fureetaa" -- a combination of English freelancer and part-timer, meaning someone who is mainly unemployed and engages in casual work.

Pasocon = personal computer
Patokaa = patrol car (police car)
Pureystay = PlayStation