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[secretsqirrel]

Isn't popty the word for oven?

popty ping - microwave oven

 

[secretsqirrel]

Whatabout Pen Y Pass ? I checked a welsh website:

How to get to Pen y Pass
Pen y Pass is the access point to both the Miners’ and Pyg Track trailheads leading to Yr Wyddfa’s summit. Between the months of March and November, planning how to get to Pen y Pass in advance is essential.

https://eryri.gov.wales/visit/snowdon/pen-y-pass-car-park/

Y is a word. But it is a urh sound not an ee sound.

The y in pyg track is the same as in pig.

 

[briantrumpet]

Y is a word. But it is a urh sound not an ee sound.

The y in pyg track is the same as in pig.

What a daft language to have so many sounds for a single letter. At least in English though there are enough letters that with thorough thought, when you're in a trough under a bough, you can think things through.

 

[secretsqirrel]

What a daft language to have so many sounds for a single letter. At least in English though there are enough letters that with thorough thought, when you're in a trough under a bough, you can think things through.

A favourite from my old dad…

How do you pronounce ghoti ?

Answer - fish

 

[All uphill]

A favourite from my old dad…

How do you pronounce ghoti ?

Answer - fish

Your dad was George Bernard Shaw? (Or was it George Orwell?)

 

[icowden]

popty ping - microwave oven

Sadly it's actually Meicrodon

 

[secretsqirrel]

Sadly it's actually Meicrodon

 

[briantrumpet]

popty ping - microwave oven

There's only one place where the phrase 'microwave oven' is permissible.

 

[secretsqirrel]

Nobody says meicrodon.
Popty ping is common slang in Wenglish. And its funny

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Meicrodon

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-dinosaur-hottie

 

[Rusty Nails]

MeicroDon

 

[BoldonLad]

Nobody says meicrodon.
Popty ping is common slang in Wenglish. And its funny

Out of interest, in Welsh, who decides what the word is for a new "thing", like for example, Microwave Oven, Computer, or indeed Microwave, all of which are "new" words.

Is there a Committee of learned persons who pronounce on it?, for example.

 

[secretsqirrel]

Out of interest, in Welsh, who decides what the word is for a new "thing", like for example, Microwave Oven, Computer, or indeed Microwave, all of which are "new" words.

Is there a Committee of learned persons who pronounce on it?, for example.

I’ve not thought about that but I would think it is no different from a new thing in any language. A combo of existing words that best describes the new thing, or something derived from another language that invented or discovered the new thing.

 

[briantrumpet]

I’ve not thought about that but I would think it is no different from a new thing in any language. A combo of existing words that best describes the new thing, or something derived from another language that invented or discovered the new thing.

There are various institutions, such as the Académie Française which tries to prescribe the official language, but certainly in the case of France, the spoken language gets further and further from the official one, to the extent I really struggle with young people talking in French: that's going to be the language once they grow up, even if all official documents *must* be in the prescribed language.

tl;dr Languages are the most democratic medium: no-one nor any official body can control how people communicate with each other, however hard they try.

It doesn't mean that people shouldn't care about language, or trying to hold onto things that might matter to them, but one's got to be prepared to know when a battle's lost.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Government trying to shut down criticism of genocide and their complicity. Magaman has obviously been up early again, I'm surprised he isn't all over this.


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