I’ve seen this myself as well. They’re starting to roll out BSL travel information on the UK rail network.
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In Finnish, we actually pronounce all the letters we write. They also always sound the same.
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My favorite English words/languages fellow on youtube once said, “The French lose interest before the end of a word.”
Having taken 2 years of high school French, I LMAO 
I’d love having a pronounce-able language.
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From what I have seen of other languages, the worst feature of English is its orthography. The best is not wasting everyone’s time memorizing grammatical genders.
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Le hibou ou la chouette? 
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Finnish only has two or three huuhkajat (huuhkaja) [horned owls/eagle-owls], pöllöt (pöllö) [true owls] and pöllöset (pöllönen) [Scops owls].
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There’s a whole lot of dodgy assumptions in that paper, that could probably produce whole papers on power, imperialism and social “class” in UK society today. Take this line from their methods section:
We used the following accents: northeast England, Belfast, Dublin, Bristol, Glasgow, Essex and received pronunciation (RP), commonly understood as standard British English.
The idea that the strained tones of RP are (a) anything like commonly used by a significant section of the UK public today, and (b) represent a “standard” form of English, from which all other pronunciations are deviations, are highly contentious premises to lay out, while at the same time giving the reader a clue as to why they found speakers of some forms of English were very attuned to mockery of their voices.
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Wow!
“The cylinders were perforated, so I’m imagining a string tethering them to another object to act as a label. Maybe they detail the contents of a vessel, or maybe where the vessel came from, or who it belonged to,” Schwartz said.
Found near cookware and pottery? My guess is, “Don’t…touch…my… lunch.” Hopefully, they’ll find more clues to translate it one day - and get a better result than Ralphie did:
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“Benoit” 
BEN-WAH (silent “t”)
I suppose that’s the reason the citizens of Detroit, Michigan pronounce “Detroiter” in the way they do, otherwise they are DE-TWAH-TERS. Can’t have that. Nope.
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Went to edit an old post, b/c used images that were too kb/MB-rich. I converted the pngs to jpgs, but the post turned out to be too old for such things. Then I mistakenly deleted it, and figured it was just as well.
I’ll post the memes I made.
After picking on most of the furren tongues whomst I studied, I figured English grammar certainly deserved a good kicking
(It’s OK - it’s Houdini)
I was mistaken when I said, “An English irregular verbs meme that’s truly accurate would be immediately and justifiably modded.” I thought of this one just today, and no one would mod it:
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“Chat” is the new “dude”, is that it?
Unless they mean cats.
Although, “cat” was a thing once as well.
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I didn’t finish my minor in linguistics, so I am no expert, but I don’t know what 4th person is.
I guess I’d use chat in the same way as y’all or folks, but I’ll stick with y’all because it’s cultural camouflage in my general area. My IRL name reads as foreign to many, so I play up the y’all or if I get really nervous I go, like, totally valley girl.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fourth_person
Generally, pronouns for indefinite referents like English “one” (“One shouldn’t use bad grammar.”) or French on (“On ne devrait pas utiliser la mauvaise grammaire.”), which typically go with the third person verb declension, even when it’s understood to be referring to the first or second person.
In some languages a specific pronoun to distinguish third person referents. “John saw Bill as he was leaving.” Who was leaving? In English it’s unclear, but in some languages you can use 3rd person “he” to specify that John was leaving, and 4th person to say that Bill was leaving.
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meanwhile in Jamaica, “chat” is the favored way to say “talk,” so I suppose a gen z Jamaican might say “chat with the chat” instead of “speak with the group.”
which reminds me, Ghoulardi, the famous Cleveland tv host, used to address his audience as “group.” as in “hello, group. welcome to the show.”
I’m just kinda rambling, if you couldn’t tell…
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As a legit old person, I have to say I’m amused by generations younger than mine being confused by the slang used by “teh youts”.
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