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Linguistic pedantry

By HighPeakFox, in General Chat

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Duquesne Whistle

Duquesne Whistle

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5 hours ago, String fellow said:

The word zoology. At school, our biology teacher told us that it's pronounced zo-ology not zoo-ology. Why? Because if it were the second of these two, then the word would require three successive o letters, which is verboten in English, even with a diaeresis over the third letter. In Dutch, such a construction is allowed. Another example is Inverness-shire, which cheats by using a hyphen. Imo, a proper nouns such as this should be allowed to have three successive letters the same, without requiring a hyphen.  

What? lol

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Duquesne Whistle

Duquesne Whistle

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Just now, String fellow said:

It looks as if my biology teacher was absolutely correct!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T0XuETBi2c

 

I don't doubt it.

Just reading your initial paragraph gave me a headache though, hence my reply. That was about my mental deficiencies rather then having a laugh at you!

Modern life and actual thinking aren't the most comfortable bedfellows, I rarely have to engage my brain very much lol

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HighPeakFox

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1 minute ago, davieG said:

How do you guys and gals get through the day?

 

Can I use guys for all genders?

In my case, by accepting that in most cases people are doing their best to communicate. I only lose it when people insist that being wrong is actually 'language evolving', rather than allowing my knowledge to be a hindrance to their ignorance.

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Duquesne Whistle

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4 minutes ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

Only if you were born in 'merica, or you're being ironic. Otherwise, it's totally unacceptable, David.

I like to think I'm generally sound with language, but I'm not sure if what I did above is correct.

Is 'merica correct or is it 'Merica? I'm sure someone can tell me.

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Funny that I had to edit my post.
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HighPeakFox

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2 minutes ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

I like to think I'm generally sound with language, but I'm not sure if what I did above is correct.

Is 'merica correct or is it 'Merica? I'm sure someone can tell me.

I think the former is correct, technically.

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davieG

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2 hours ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

Only if you were born in 'merica, or you're being ironic. Otherwise, it's totally unacceptable, David.

I was comparing it to actor and actress.

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