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WCDT: 2455-2459 (27-31 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Loki:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 30 May 2013, 14:29 ---no standards of spelling until quite recently
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I just went and checked. German had no official standard orthography until 1901 :P To be fair, it's also sometimes far from consistent, particularly when they try to forcefully germanize words of foreign origin into German spelling, like phasing out the ph out of Greek words to replace it with f.
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You don't have to tell me thrice, dear forum!
pwhodges:
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Loki:
But then how would I kvetch about it?
ankhtahr:
hehe, the u in 'pull' can be quite interesting too. In Scottish accents "pull" and "pool" are homophones, they sound the same.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Loki on 30 May 2013, 14:57 ---But then how would I kvetch about it?
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Or make up humorous exaggerations like so:
Warning – While you were worrying about that crack in your new plasterwork the whole universe was blown up, shrunk into a pocket model of itself, then blown up some more (real good this time) which reset the whole thing. The crack's gone now though.
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