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minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up50·19 hours ago“Get” is pronounced somewhat close to “yet”, so it’s a soft “g”. And “killing” is pronounced “shilling”, so a “soft” “k”, as well.
minus-squarenotabot@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·18 hours agoRules as intended vs. Rules as written.
minus-squareteslasaur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·18 hours agoHard vowels: aouå Soft vowels: eiyäö But of course there are endless exceptions. Loan words dont give a shit about the rules.
minus-squareAbsolutelyClawless@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·17 hours agoSo kind of like Giertz is somehow pronounced Yetch. I can’t believe we’ve been making fun of French only all these years when Swedish is right there. /jk
minus-squareAbsolutelyClawless@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoWe make fun of English all the time. In both senses.
“Get” is pronounced somewhat close to “yet”, so it’s a soft “g”. And “killing” is pronounced “shilling”, so a “soft” “k”, as well.
Rules as intended vs. Rules as written.
Hard vowels: aouå
Soft vowels: eiyäö
But of course there are endless exceptions. Loan words dont give a shit about the rules.
So kind of like Giertz is somehow pronounced Yetch. I can’t believe we’ve been making fun of French only all these years when Swedish is right there. /jk
Or how about, I don’t know, English?
We make fun of English all the time. In both senses.
low hanging fruit
🤷♂️ still funny to me
How Dickensian