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I enjoyed the completely unnecessary diacritical mark over the 'e' in anime. "Pretentious? Moi??"

• Natsu 16y ago
  Actually, sometimes I wish we used accent marks more. You have no idea how hard English is to pronounce until you try to teach the "rules" to someone else. I mean, one could claim that "ghoti" is pronounced the same as "fish."
  • mootothemax 16y ago
    I mean, one could claim that "ghoti" is pronounced the same as "fish." And taking this full-circle, according to Wikipedia, in the Klingon language ghoti means fish.
    • mechanical_fish 16y ago
      If ever I am tempted to wonder why learning Klingon is a popular activity, I will remember this example. It's just one linguistic in-joke after another.
  • philwelch 16y ago
    I mean, one could claim that "ghoti" is pronounced the same as "fish." Yeah, if you ignore all the heuristics about where letters are placed in a word. "gh" is only an "f" sound at the end of a word and "ti" is only a "sh" sound in the middle of a word.
    • user24 16y ago
      laughter edit: although a trivial modification to the rule you suggested would fix this counterexample; gh is only an 'f' sound at the end of a word-stem.
    • frobozz 16y ago
      What was that? I couldn't hear you over the coughing. Once I've sloughed off this layer of mucus, it should quieten down.