>frenchaboos will defend this

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ok dad

>>75419823
;)

>>75420275
Yeah but we don't torturously try to defend it

>>75420275
Wait the d in Wednesday is silent ?

Fun fact: french linguist actually wanted to replace the usual space to seperate words with "zxtdc"

>>75420336
no the image is wrong. there is no silent letter, although the pronunciation is more like Wedensday

In fact all the "silent" D's are wrong there

>>75420452
Definitely silent "d" in Wednesday here

this is why i started learning german
silent letters can go fuck themselves
god knows why we havent adopted an IPA sound alphabet

>>75420633
Wen-ez-day?
Wen-ens-day?

kek, must be an american thing

>>75420730
in ourlanguage it would be written "vennsdei/vednsdei"
wednesday is so illogical

>>75420730
In my experience they say something like "Whens-day"

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>>75420798
>my language makes more sense than yours BUT it's not because it's my native language it's because you do this this and that differently to us and our way is better

>>75420798
It comes from old English phonology, it used to be something like Wodnesddag (Wodens day)

>>75420822
plebeians

>>75420858
>defending english spelling
explain why "ancient" is spelled like that

>>75420275
>wenes-day
>waynes-day
Always pronounce it this way. Is it correct?

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>>75420358
pff, not even a new idea

I bet french put those silent letters there just to mess with the rest of us

>>75420659
German has silent letters too since people don't adjust the spelling or pronunciation of English loanwords to match German orthography.

>>75421130
stumme buchstaben auf deutsch sind aber selten

>>75419823
>>75420275
there's nothing wrong with silent letters
they help guide the pronunciation of the word

>>75421130
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nDx8okxYoM

We'll just get rid of everything unuseful

>>75421240
Noch sind sie selten. Wenn mehr und mehr deutschr Wörter durch englische ersetzt werden, werden sie häufig sein. Genau wie es im Englischen durch französischen Einfluss passiert ist.

>>75420822
Yep, exactly

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>>75420659
>god knows why we havent adopted an IPA sound alphabet

because that's retarded and impractical?

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>>75419823
English speaking countries will defend the silent L in salmon.

>>75421107
Yea, we want to watch the world burn

>>75423955
I've heard people say it with a hard L (not consistently)

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can someone give me an overview on pronouncing things in french?

i feel like a complete dumb-ass when pronouncing french words. my specialty is in asian languages, where we have a more consistent romanized pronounciation.

>>75425070
don't be an austist trying to pronunce too hard the consonants. Everytime people exaggerate I don't know if they do it on purpose
Sometimes "r" isn't even heard. Don't groan like an idiot, it is a short "r".
I don't know what else there's to say, that's pretty wide

>>75420275
calm, balm, half, calf etc - silent letters? which retard wrote this, i don't say a baby cow is a CAF

>>75425070
"r" is similar to the German one. Short (remember, short)
vowels before "m" and "n" are nasal

impossible - "uhhhmpossiiibl" (sorry for possibly caricaturing the word)
The "uhhh" is nasal and rounded

"ais" - e
"ail" - ahy, "aille" - "ahye"
"ai" - e
"ch" - sh
"ill" - long English y, Slavic "j"
"ou" - u
"eu" - rounded u
Consonants in the end are mostly not pronounced

I don't know...

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>my specialty is in asian languages, where we have a more consistent romanized pronounciation.

>>75419823
I just noticed that if a word doesn't end by "e" then it will always be a silent consonant.

>>75419823
>frenchaboos
We prefer to be called ouiboos.

>>75420822
Most people who are educated here say "whend-sday" or "wed-nes-day". Fuckers in the south say shit like "winsdee"

>>75419823
>this triggers the anglo

deal with it

>>75421083
It's pronounced "wenz-day" in American English.

>>75419823

At school we were taught that the "t" in "often" is silent but I always hear the anglo pronounce it.

Have we been lied to?

>>75429745
Nobody in America says "offt'n". Maybe Briddish people do, but Muricans don't.

>>75428060
how about plus, and all the words ending with a vowel

>>75420275
These letters are pronunced actually