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English needs more letters.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-08 23:11

Seriously, there's all this cool shit out there like Þ, Ŋ, Ɔ, Ƣ, and Ѧ, and we're limiting ourselves to A through Z? Come on!

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-24 18:41

>>84
1) OK.

2)Trying to save your ad hominem with another ad hominem. Cool, this is smartness! Oh yes, I am the stupid one here... LOL.

3)Protip: you didn't mean /y/ sound but /j/, as in "yes" /jɛs/ - front unrounded semivowel. There's no /y/ in English (unlike German "ü" or French "u"). And yes, there is a /j/ sound in "piranha" for some dialects.

The "nha" in the word is pronounced as /nə/ or /-njə/, and the first "a" is pronounced as /æ/ or /ɑː/ (check Wikipedia). Since there's dialectal variation, you can just pick the spelling that sounds nearer the original [piˈɾɐ̃ɲɐ] - in this case, "piranya". Or propose another tiebreaker than etymology.

4)OK.

5)Sleep deprivation fucks my grammar. Not only with English.

| What the fuck? You don't even know what you're arguing about
Yes, I do. I'm showing that English orthography's worst problem is not lack of letters or something like that, is LACK OF CONSISTENCY.

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