Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as VP pick
www.washingtonpost.com
Walz doesn’t hail from a traditional battleground state, but his credentials as a military veteran and gun owner who previously represented a Republican-leaning rural part of Minnesota in Congress could help Harris.
  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    Man the english language makes no sense.

    the sound in lose is the same sound as we are taught “oo” makes.

    Couldn’t a more straightforward language be chosen as the global one ffs

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      My father (who had a PhD in English) used to tell me that “ghoti” was pronounced “fish”

      GH as in rouGH
      O as in wOmen
      TI as in raTIon

      • Dr. Bluefall@toast.oooEnglish
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        1 month ago

        That isn’t really consistent with English orthography.

        But you can write “pfysche”, and that would be consistent with English.

        • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 month ago

          Ooh, also its accent, this is not a thing couplet for me

          Discount, viscount, load and broad,
          Toward, to forward, to reward,

          Nor it’s immediate predecessor,

          Banquet is not nearly parquet,
          Which exactly rhymes with khaki.

          Parquet isn’t in my vocabulary, but doesn’t seem to rhyme with khaki in any common dialect either way.

    • vxx@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      There’s also loose and they sound the same but mean different things.

      Loose is when your pants is too wide.

      Lose is when the pants were so wide that you lost them.

        • vxx@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          Interesting, I didn’t know that. FYI, there’s the phonetic transcription that saves us from using other words to describe a pronunciation.

          luːz - lose

          luːs - loose