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[Miss Mae]

We could just make c = ch and no other sound ever.

[The Man]

It would probably make more sense than the current orthography. But then, English orthography has never been particularly straightforward (or sensible) to begin with.

It would probably be almost impossible to get used to reading again, though, so it'll probably never happen for that reason alone

[Colonel Angus]

We could just make c = ch and no other sound ever.

Just for this, I'm moogle hugging all of your posts.

[Miss Mae]

We could just make c = ch and no other sound ever.

Just for this, I'm moogle hugging all of your posts.

Excellent.

[Colonel Angus]

We could just make c = ch and no other sound ever.

Just for this, I'm moogle hugging all of your posts.

Excellent.

That was meant as a threat.

[Jiro]

Threatening Mae can have disastrous consequences.

[Miss Mae]

We could just make c = ch and no other sound ever.

Just for this, I'm moogle hugging all of your posts.

Excellent.

That was meant as a threat.

I figured. I refused to give you the satisfaction of it working.

[blackmage_nuke]

You dont even need c if you swap ch with kh and all previous kh to k.

We kan also get rid of x and q as x kan be replased by ks and q kan be replased by kw

And khanje the name of w so it's one syllable like every other letter. Kall it 'way' or something

[Miss Mae]

You dont even need c if you change ch to kh and all previous kh to k.

We can also get rid of x and q since x can be replaced by ks and q can be replaced by kw

And change the name of w so it's one syllable like every other letter. Call it 'way' or something

All of this. Yes.

[Mercen-X]

K and J could also replace g.

ch isn't represented by any other sound, but other than that, yeah, c is pretty close to linguistically useless in English.

Technically, ch can be replaced with tsh.

I actually meant for more examples like Longevity wherein the ng and the "j" sounds occur simultaneously.

Fringe. Orange. Range. Binge. Singe. Arrange. Derange. Enjoy. And so on. At least in my dialect of English these all have the same sound as longevity.

I don't what dialect you're speaking if you're saying "f-ring-j", "o-rang-j", "bing-j", "sing-j", "ar-rang-j", or "de-rang-j"... I've come to think that pronouncing "longevity" as "Long-jevity" is just an American idiosyncrasy.

[The Man]

Technically, ch can be replaced with tsh.

Not unless you're saying "ts" a lot differently than I am. I don't have a microphone to record it, unfortunately.

I don't what dialect you're speaking if you're saying "f-ring-j", "o-rang-j", "bing-j", "sing-j", "ar-rang-j", or "de-rang-j"... I've come to think that pronouncing "longevity" as "Long-jevity" is just an American idiosyncrasy.

"Fringe" and "longevity" have the same sound in Florida's dialect of English. I've never heard someone say "long-jevity". It's always been "lon-jevity".

[Miss Mae]

I don't what dialect you're speaking if you're saying "f-ring-j", "o-rang-j", "bing-j", "sing-j", "ar-rang-j", or "de-rang-j"... I've come to think that pronouncing "longevity" as "Long-jevity" is just an American idiosyncrasy.

"Fringe" and "longevity" have the same sound in Florida's dialect of English. I've never heard someone say "long-jevity". It's always been "lon-jevity".

Same in Australia, as far as I've ever heard.

[Mercen-X]

It's how I hear people pronounce it on television. Of course, these are the same people who say "for better or worst", "a whole 'nother", "irregardless", "and etc.", or even "excetera", and, yeah, well, you get it.

Which pronunciation is correct? Garbij or garbazh (garbage), garaj or gaerazh (garage), vestij or vesteezh (vestige), prestij or presteezh (prestige)?

[Miss Mae]

It's how I hear people pronounce it on television. Of course, these are the same people who say "for better or worst", "a whole 'nother", "irregardless", "and etc.", or even "excetera", and, yeah, well, you get it.

Which pronunciation is correct? Garbij or garbazh (garbage), garaj or gaerazh (garage), vestij or vesteezh (vestige), prestij or presteezh (prestige)?

This is how I pronounce them, and how I hear them pronounced here, but that doesn't mean that's necessarily "correct". The last two I use more of an 'ee' sound.

[Bubba]

c is pretty close to linguistically useless in English.

Q is the worst letter in the English language.

From the internet...

Q is the first letter on a computer keyboard (and therefore the first letter of the alphabet), and the most bizarre and ridiculous letter of the English language.It serves as comic relief in the stage performances of duo Q&A. Its shape and sound are embarrassing at best and patently obscene at worst. Q is also an image of when the letter 'I' beats his wife 'O'. This can be shown as I stabbing O.


Fortunately,Q is almost always buffered from contact with other letters by U, a little-used vowel of ill repute. This is a sure sign that the letter Q is a useless, co-dependent letter that is utterly incapable of doing anything on its own.


The extremely rare "naked Q" (that is, without its protective U) is the ultimate lexigraphical abomination, and is for the most part limited to foreign pagan languages, and names of weird unchristian countries, like Qatar which no Godfearing red-blooded patriotic American would be caught dead in.


Q is thought, by some people, to be a deformed relative of O. Others believe, for obvious reasons, that O is female and Q is male. Most people, however, believe that these people are either idiots or Time Lords, and should be burned at the stake while being forced to eat their own guts.