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[-] odium@programming.dev 40 points 2 years ago

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

[-] andscape@feddit.it 52 points 2 years 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 24 points 2 years ago

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

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 6 points 2 years 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 11 months ago

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

[-] LogarithmicCamel@feddit.uk 15 points 2 years ago

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

[-] TommySalami@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 5 points 2 years 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

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

gn in Italian is consistently pronounced like ñ in Spanish.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago

But with less flair

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 4 points 2 years 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 2 years ago
[-] adj16@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I loves me some champaggin with my lesayna

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago
[-] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Real G's move in silence like lasagna.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

PizSUH - SUH. LaZAnyuhZAnyuhZA.

[-] giraffes_arent_real@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Plattnudelauflauf

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Tender Vittles?

this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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