by "PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
Published 06/23/2017 at 08:16
by "PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
Published 06/23/2017 at 08:16
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W - Double U.
U is a vowel. Doubling it should not affect its designation. W should be a vowel. Who decided it was a consonant?
"Nibby" (nibby68)
06/23/2017 at 08:20, STARS: 1
u_u
"random001" (random001)
06/23/2017 at 08:21, STARS: 0
Even worse, why is it actually double-V?
"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
06/23/2017 at 08:23, STARS: 5
Real talk here
The French call it “double vé”, for double-V, I think they have that figured out
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
06/23/2017 at 08:24, STARS: 0
VeeDoublevee?
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 08:25, STARS: 3
Man, you don’t know the can of worms you have just opened...
First of all, there is a difference betweeen “letters” and “sounds”.
Second, what we call those “letters” does not necessarily relate to what they are, were, or how they are (or were) pronounced.
Suffice to say that the Latin alphabet did not really make a distinction between the letters
u
and
v
, for example (hint: they had the same sound). Which is why the Romans wrote, say, “SPARTACUS” this way: “SPARTACVS”.
U and V as sepparate “letters” did not happen until much later.
Have a look here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semivowel
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V#History
"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
06/23/2017 at 08:28, STARS: 2
Why not just say Folks-vahgen? I’m from Poland and we don’t say V-W individually. makes no sense
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 08:30, STARS: 0
But the Jerries do.
Also, you are expecting all English speakers to be aware of the fact that V-, in German, sounds exactly the same as an “F”
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 08:31, STARS: 0
Good point. We need to have a congressional hearing on Latin/Greek meddling into English alphabet.
"Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever" (rustanddust)
06/23/2017 at 08:32, STARS: 1
I’d been in Poland for about three weeks before I figured out the radio advertisements for “Bimvuu” were actually BMW. I LOL’d.
"jimz" (jimz)
06/23/2017 at 08:34, STARS: 1
MERDA TAVRORVM ANIMAS CONTVRBIT
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 08:34, STARS: 0
Quite nicely explained here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W#History
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 08:35, STARS: 0
I understand what you’re saying, but English alphabet contains letter W which is designated as a consonant. When you say the letter - double U, you would think letter U is being doubled - UU. If U is a vowel, what makes W a consonant.
Don’t even get me started on the sometimey bitch Y
"random001" (random001)
06/23/2017 at 08:36, STARS: 0
That didn’t really explain it. I mean, in Spanish, it’s even pronounced “doble ve” not “doble oo”
Also, it’s written as two V’s, so it’s doublevee from now on.
Also also, wikipedia is fake news.
"Wacko" (wacko--)
06/23/2017 at 08:36, STARS: 2
DD - Double D
this is the most SFW i could find
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 08:39, STARS: 0
I think the blonde is struggling to fill that shirt... I am going straight to hell. I am not to pass go. I am not to collect 200 dollars.
It’s gonna be one of those Fridays.
"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
06/23/2017 at 08:41, STARS: 1
Same for Spanish.
Makes sense, look at it.
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
Those are V’s, not U’s.
"Wacko" (wacko--)
06/23/2017 at 08:41, STARS: 0
let me google that for you
http://lmgtfy.com/?t=i&q=double+d
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 08:43, STARS: 0
In most of the Spanish-speaking world. Try Chile, for instance: they say “doble u” (that also happens in some other Latin American countries but cannot remember which ones; incidentally, in Peninsular Spanish it is called “doble uve”.)
The relationship between the way W is
represented
and the way W is traditionally
called
does not have to appear evident to people in the 21st century. I suggest you have a look at how the Latin alphabet evolved (in particular, its usage in the English language)...
"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
06/23/2017 at 08:44, STARS: 0
While we’re at it, what back-assward rules make some pronounce ‘Z’
zed
.
Where the hell are you getting that D? If you’re like your mom, you got it from me
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 08:45, STARS: 1
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 08:48, STARS: 0
I love all letters that are longer than one letter.
Ay
Bee
See
Double You
Zed/Zet
Let me get my Webster’s dictionary out and see what a double you is or a Zed...
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 08:51, STARS: 2
In English, W is a “consonant”
letter
assigned to a particular
sound
which is much closer to a vowel than you think! That’s the reason why the phoneme /w/, usually expressed in English with a letter W (as in “water”) is called a
semivowel.
"Wacko" (wacko--)
06/23/2017 at 08:52, STARS: 1
that was my go to SFW image if i didn’t find anything less eye popping
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 08:53, STARS: 1
I can live with a semivowel
"random001" (random001)
06/23/2017 at 08:55, STARS: 1
Ok, high school spanish teachers pronounce it doble-ve.
Dammit, AuthiCooper, I’m a physicist, not a linguist!
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 08:56, STARS: 0
That just shows to what extent language varieties can “drift” – to the point one can make the joke about countries separated by a common language etc.
"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
06/23/2017 at 08:57, STARS: 1
They should. Language is cool av
"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
06/23/2017 at 08:58, STARS: 0
Be-em-wu, hehehe
Or “be-emka”
"Wacko" (wacko--)
06/23/2017 at 08:59, STARS: 1
Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury I present you exhibit W
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 09:01, STARS: 0
Of course they do. You were exposed to a particular variety of Spanish, the one your HS teachers
spake
. No one can know all of them!
Don’t worry, I shall be gracious and expect you to give me a good thrashing next time I try to explain wormholes or condensates.
"random001" (random001)
06/23/2017 at 09:01, STARS: 0
Nobody writes it like that! I should know, my name STARTS with W.
"random001" (random001)
06/23/2017 at 09:02, STARS: 1
Heh. To be fair, I can barely speak English proper like. I talk Math much better.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
06/23/2017 at 09:03, STARS: 0
Don’t worry. That was my thought as well. Now, the girl on the right.....
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 09:06, STARS: 0
Although
merda taurorum
is a direct translation of
bullshit
I find commendable your care in showing the correct case endings.
(I wonder how the Romans said what we nowadays call “bullshit” in English?)
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
06/23/2017 at 09:09, STARS: 1
I think you are pissing into the wind, because English is just such a stupid language and absolutely none of it makes sense.
meat/sweat
read/read (those are pronounced differently for some asinine reason)
bowl/howl
Forget about W, why do we have C when we have S and K? Because English is nothing more than a bastardized collection of every other language on Earth.
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 09:16, STARS: 0
I like languages like Russian. There are rules. There are some exceptions to rules, but overall, it makes sense. There are some quirks like soft sign and hard sign, but once you know how they are used, it again makes sense.
I’ve been trying to teach my wife a bit. So I’ve been paying attention to how English works and it just makes no sense.
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 09:16, STARS: 1
I have starred your reply, but that does not mean I agree with your statement “I don’t speak English proper like”.
"Wacko" (wacko--)
06/23/2017 at 09:17, STARS: 0
in cursive that’s how w is written
"random001" (random001)
06/23/2017 at 09:26, STARS: 1
I like you. We can be friends.
"random001" (random001)
06/23/2017 at 09:27, STARS: 0
Psh, in my world, that’s “omega” not “double-you”, also known as phase angle.
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 09:33, STARS: 0
A scholar in Romance languages said once (not jokingly) that we are lucky we have so much Latin material: Modern English is so full of Romance vocabulary and structures that otherwise it would be very difficult to realise it is in fact a Germanic language.
For a completely crazy mix-up of languages I suggest you look up “Maltese”. Farsi (an Indoeuropean language, just like English, Russian or Italian, but written in the Persian version of Arabic) is also an interesting concoction.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
06/23/2017 at 09:36, STARS: 0
Yeah, I hate the English alphabet sometimes.
We really don’t need to have the letter C , or X for that matter. And why do E and F have almost the same shape when they have nothing else in common? At least the similarities between B and P make sense.
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/23/2017 at 09:39, STARS: 0
You speak Russian? Man, how I envy you.
One day I shall learn Russian, and Hebrew. I’d love to add Icelandic (or Japanese), but I am getting old for that.
"Master Cylinder" (mastercylinder28)
06/23/2017 at 09:47, STARS: 0
In German, its a double vee. I have no idea how English ended up with a double yuuuuuuu
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 09:48, STARS: 1
Yeah. I speak Russian. English. Spanish I learned in the streets. Few words in German, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Kazakh.
Learning another language is easiest if you practice it daily. If you sit in front of your computer for few hours a day and then go back to your natural language, you instantly forget everything you learned.
"Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever" (rustanddust)
06/23/2017 at 09:49, STARS: 0
Yep :)
“Vi-fi” for WiFi was a tough one to get used to.
“USA” used to get me, too. I usually went with “stany”, as I couldn’t get my American-English brain wrapped around not pronouncing acronyms by individual letter.
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 09:50, STARS: 0
I think we need Congress to make a change. I will now hold my breath till the change is made
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/23/2017 at 09:52, STARS: 0
Let’s make our own alphabet....
"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
06/23/2017 at 10:00, STARS: 0
We say Oo-ess-ah for USA frequently.
Business trip?
"Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever" (rustanddust)
06/23/2017 at 10:14, STARS: 0
Staying with friends/exploring the option of moving there permanently.
I was in Upper Silesia (Katowice area). One night hanging out with a few friends, they were trying to explain some language differences unique to Silesia, but we were about 30 Zubr’s deep that evening, and all of us speaking a drunken blend of Polish and English, so I didn’t get all of it :)
"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
06/23/2017 at 10:53, STARS: 0
Niiiiice! Didn’t settle there in the end though?