Star The 10 Most Annoying Things in Internet Comments
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Aug 2009 16:32 UTC
Humor Since I think we haven't been having enough fun lately on OSNews, I decided it's time we do something fun for a change. We all have our little pet annoyances when it comes to other people's comments. Fixed expressions or comment styles that annoy the living daylights out of you. Here are mine.
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RE[7]: First!
by HappyGod on Wed 5th Aug 2009 07:23 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: First!"
HappyGod
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2005-10-19

Uhh, no. Okay, it may be true that different dialects have adopted the spelling pronunciation with the 't' to greater and lesser degrees


You seem to be suffering from the assumption that English follows some kind of logic when it comes to pronounciation.

The vocalisation of the 't' in all of the examples you gave were lost over time, rather than recently gained. It's just that in a large group of English accents, it was not lost. It is therefore not wrong, just different. In fact it could be argued that pronouncing the 't' is more correct as it is closer to the original.

And even now that some people do distinguish these words, it's only in careful pronunciation that people maintain the distinction


This statement could not be more wrong. I have to force myself to imagine a sentence where these words are pronounced the same, and no native speaker of either the UK or Australia would ever do so.

The fact that they are both born of the same root is irrelevant. Languages evolve, and they are now two separate words with separate meanings.

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