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This community has been very cool about spelling, grammar, and typos (hexbear.net)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I still see blue checks in Twitter that need to reply with "*you're" kinda bullshit. I do reread some of my posts and I see them littered with mobile edits or just bullshit language that only made sense to my brain at 2am. Thanks everybody for being chill about language. I still (wrongly) imagine that I'm very good with writing, and seeing my own writing some time after it's been published is a nice kick of humility.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Irl, I say "croy-sant" for croissant just to deal incidental psychic damage to any French person that overhear it (I believe the kids call this "Praxis", you're welcome). This is in a commercial kitchen staffed with people who have English as their second or third language, it really doesn't bother anyone I work with very much.

However, every now and then I use the word in public or with strangers is and get corrected because it's actually craw-son. Then I can one up them by saying "actually, it's kwa-sahn you connard".

I know how to pronounce French words correctly, I simply choose not to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

There's probably been Frankish dialects in history that would pronounce that word /kroj sant/.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

based and du Bois pilled

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

This is pretty much the case for every foreign word in English

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Which is like every word in English. "Knight" is Germanic and they used to pronounce the K. We stopped saying the K a long ass time ago after the Battle of Hastings. But then we'll turn around and say words with French origin using Germanic pronunciation.

Really, really wish English could be trimmed down and fixed. Language doesn't work that way unfortunately. Our spelling could really use an overhaul or an entirely different alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

English could use a code refactor. Lotsa technical debt bogging us down

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Gabagoul