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[-] odium@programming.dev 39 points 1 year ago

Tbf, these spellings make more sense than the actual spelling. How tf is Lasagna pronounced lasanya? Fuck you romance languages.

[-] andscape@feddit.it 50 points 1 year ago

Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling...

Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it's trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 23 points 1 year ago

As an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies...

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a Hungarian, me too. We spell everything exactly as we write it.

Edit: the reply is right, of course we pronounce everything as we write it.

[-] CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I, uh... um, yeah. I would hope that you do. (I assume you mean you spell exactly as you speak lol)

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

But do you pronounce everything as you speak it? /s

[-] LogarithmicCamel@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

Right. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.

[-] TommySalami@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hell, it's spelled phonetically enough for English too. "gn" making the same sound as in "gnome" will pretty much get you there.

I guess to be fair it's just not a common phoneme, and spelling can be a crapshoot in English.

[-] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My dad used to say ghoti is pronounced fish.

GH as in rough

O as in women

TI as in ration

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

... Or it's completely silent. Like, the whole word.

GH as in although

O as in people

T as in ballet

I as in business

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Chicken permission is my favorite!

[-] odium@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Gork@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Parmeyshawn

[-] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago

You can write that however you like, it's not an Italian word anyway. That would be "parmigiana", paar-mee-djaa-nah

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally, I think it's really entertaining to say la-sag-na and see who cringes

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

That's my internal monologue so that I can remember how it's spelled.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

gn in Italian is consistently pronounced like ñ in Spanish.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

But with less flair

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] MBM@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

Ask the English speakers who imported words like lasagna and baguette without changing the spelling to lasanya or baget.

Worst of all, sometimes they change the spelling but only to remove the diacritics that tell you how it's supposed to be pronounced

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

It actually used to be spelled "loseyns"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CilkAVJLBUY

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Don't start me with things like eye. No chance to spell that correctly if you do not know the word - just random conglomerate of letters.

[-] Sami@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 year ago
[-] adj16@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Normally I would implore you to post this to the community but idk about multiple lorsargna posts in one day

[-] Boris_NotTooBadinoff@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I loves me some champaggin with my lesayna

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago
[-] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Real G's move in silence like lasagna.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

PizSUH - SUH. LaZAnyuhZAnyuhZA.

Still one of my favorite sketches. I love how judge got in on it too

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Plattnudelauflauf

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Tender Vittles?

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