• rethnor@lemmy.zip
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      15 hours ago

      He’s trying to make his followers feel better, match their energy so he doesn’t come across as an elite billionaire

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      13 hours ago

      Honestly I’d give shit like that a pass, silent letters are stupid and sometimes don’t even exist in certain spellings for the same word looking at you soder, sodder, solder. Also if anyone brings up the l in solder being pronounced, not in my dialect nor in most other older dialects I’ve encountered only the ones wherein they reromanticized random words.

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          8 hours ago

          Pretty sure you guys were effected by the reromanticized effect, that broadly speaking started around the 1850s or so in England though wasn’t fully finalized until about the 1970s or so. Solder was just one of the more unified examples of a word being effected due to it being rarely used outside of blacksmiths up until the industrial revolution and it being a relatively easy thing to assume the l was pronounced by the developing metal working tradesmen unless the region had the soder or sodder spellings instead of with the traditional spelling.

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            8 hours ago

            Who cares? The point is that the spelling is better for us now. Dialects exist. Universalising English is stupid.

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              7 hours ago

              Oh most certainly but also I’m going to take every moment to shit on anything and everything the English aristocracy has ever done if it’s even the least bit stupid. I will shed the blood of Saxon men.

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                5 hours ago

                I reckon there are probably more valuable way to spend your energy than on policing spelling.

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                  My problem ain’t spelling, it’s folks trying to “correct” my pronunciation. This is just one of those things wherein it’s basically a representation of me being tired of people trying to correct my dialect cause it’s not “proper” to say I hate that would be an understatement.

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                    38 minutes ago

                    I agree with this sentiment as someone from the north UK, you aren’t correcting me, you’re trying to erase my regional dialect.

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        10 hours ago

        Bro’s starting out with ethnocentrism and ends with it full circle “reromanticized”

        Impressive performance, I envy

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          8 hours ago

          How is that ethnocentric? I’m a Californian Redneck barely a culture and sure as shit not a ethnicity. My point was to moreso directly shit on the English in particular who reintroduced the l pronunciation and indirectly caused a bunch of random fuckers to get pissy with me. In hindsight I probably should specified, regardless I am unfamiliar with any dialect pre 1900s who pronounced the l in solder.