Gregory Hays8-YO commented this morning that "tomb" is pronounced "toom," and "womb" is pronounced "woom," so why isn't "bomb" pronounced "boom," and I was happy to be able to tell her that it's because our world was not created by God but rather by an incompetent subordinate demiurge, a sort of sorcerer's apprentice if you w
The people replying to this with painstaking explanations of why "bomb" isn't pronounced "boom" are everything to me.
empliau@aristofontes You should show her the I Love Lucy clip where Ricky reads a children's book aloud containing through, though, and other demiurge delights. It ends in a flood of indignant Spanish.
The Lichtenbergian
UnHooked@aristofontes just hold on while I comb(coom) my hair
Gretchen Anderson@aristofontes show her a non speaker trying to say tough, though, through, thought, throughout etc. it’s on tik tok. Good times.
Pamela Fox@aristofontes did you happen to watch https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qxohw-X4wDM ?
Gallagher Explains Pronunciation | Stand-Up | The New Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
@aristofontes also there was the 'great vowel shift' (Scotland not so much)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
Mr. Completely@aristofontes spoiler alert for Olaf Stapledon's obscure yet massively influential masterpiece #SFF novel Star Maker
C0ppertop@mrcompletely @aristofontes brilliant book. I remember reading it when I was a young lad of 17.
@C0ppert0p @aristofontes I think about 85% of the sci fi concepts that appeared in the genre up through about the New Wave authors originated in Star Maker, half of them as almost throwaway ideas tossed off in a sentence or two
Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderYou're killing it, this parenting thing. Cackle.
@aristofontes that's some good food
@aristofontes i get this feels so mutch! fuck you sais dislexia
Marcos@aristofontes Sure the 8-YO didn't get into the Gallagher videos? 😄
@glitch25 It's totally something she saw on YouTube.
DoomsdaysCW@aristofontes Ooooh! I wish I had someone to tell me about Gnostic wisdom when I was asking questions at a young age. It would have helped me make sense of all the bible stuff I was exposed to -- that didn't answer the questions I was asking!
Kevin Granade has moved@aristofontes this is funny but for real I told my 7 year old son that the English language sucks and it's really hard for everyone else too. At first he was scandalized and giggled at me, then I told him I wasn't joking and he started crying and ran to hug me and thank me because he thought it was easy for everyone else and he was just dumb.
yr@aristofontes it is pronounced boom
Ginnikin@aristofontes Husband's response: English, like everything else in Britain, is just a bunch of stolen shit from other cultures.