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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I cringe every time I hear another guy refer to women like this

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You pronounce the words man and men the same way? And this is also the case for woman and women?

Am I understanding you correctly?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ugh, this conversation has reminded me of how much I hate that woman is pronounce wo-men and women is pronounced like wimmen.

Why can't we just spell words as they are pronounced or pronounce words as they are spelled? It would make the language much easier to learn for future generations

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Because English is a Germanic language that has half of it's vocabulary as borrowed words from a Romance language (French) that then got chewed up and mangled for a few centuries.

Not like Gaelic, which has to own the fact that most of it's words are pronounced in the least sensible way one might think that series of letters is said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I discovered through this thread that women is pronounced as wimen

the english language is fucked