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Something-mology (feddit.nl)
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Welsh orthography (media.kbin.earth)
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Basically twins? (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26119689

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Evil Beekes be like: (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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No Pre-Greek origin today >:)

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þeodisce spræc (sh.itjust.works)
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Though I was taught this through, or so I thought, it's still tough throughout. (beehaw.org)
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English is a strange language. (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25626225

I know no other languages, so i guess Im just gonna have to roll with it.

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Lorem ipsum (lemmy.world)
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Multi-lingual (i.imgur.com)
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ghoti shall set us free (startrek.website)
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The many forms of Pain (au Chocolat) (lemmy.world)
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Any Low German speakers here? (files.catbox.moe)
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Phase Change (xkcd) (imgs.xkcd.com)
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3025

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It's alright (files.catbox.moe)
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Medieval Twitter (sh.itjust.works)
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The wonders of English spelling (files.catbox.moe)
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Explain French (lemmy.world)
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Hard time to be non-binary Spanish person (sh.itjust.works)
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"It's so much trouble remembering modern pronou-" (lemmy.world)
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I thought it was an easy question ... (feddit.org)
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Bone cognates (sh.itjust.works)
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Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon". (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20160782

Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name

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씨발 allophones (lemm.ee)
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살 and 쌀 are the same word

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Linguistic Perscriptivists (mander.xyz)
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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/16786687

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typical SOV (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18281066

Least long-winded speech of Cicero

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