oodium programming.dev26Hide 26 repliesTbf, these spellings make more sense than the actual spelling. How tf is Lasagna pronounced lasanya? Fuck you romance languages.40
andscape replyfeddit.it6Hide 6 repliesBold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling... Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it's trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.52
DDamage replyfeddit.it3Hide 3 repliesAs an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies...24
TheGreenGolem replylemm.ee2Hide 2 repliesAs a Hungarian, me too. We spell everything exactly as we write it. Edit: the reply is right, of course we pronounce everything as we write it.6
CCheezyWeezle replylemmy.worldI, uh... um, yeah. I would hope that you do. (I assume you mean you spell exactly as you speak lol)6
LLogarithmicCamel replyfeddit.uk1Hide 1 replyRight. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.15
TTommySalami replylemmy.worldHell, it's spelled phonetically enough for English too. "gn" making the same sound as in "gnome" will pretty much get you there. I guess to be fair it's just not a common phoneme, and spelling can be a crapshoot in English.3
Flying Squid replylemmy.world1Hide 1 replyMy dad used to say ghoti is pronounced fish. GH as in rough O as in women TI as in ration19
DDicska replylemmy.world... Or it's completely silent. Like, the whole word. GH as in although O as in people T as in ballet I as in business5
mmustardman replydiscuss.tchncs.de1Hide 1 replyI wish I was named Tony now. I wish we all were named Tony.4
DDamage replyfeddit.itYou can write that however you like, it's not an Italian word anyway. That would be "parmigiana", paar-mee-djaa-nah4
rrockSlayer replylemmy.world1Hide 1 replyPersonally, I think it's really entertaining to say la-sag-na and see who cringes8
SSokathHisEyesOpen replylemmy.mlThat's my internal monologue so that I can remember how it's spelled.5
MMBM replylemmings.world Ask the English speakers who imported words like lasagna and baguette without changing the spelling to lasanya or baget. Worst of all, sometimes they change the spelling but only to remove the diacritics that tell you how it's supposed to be pronounced5
Swedneck replydiscuss.tchncs.deIt actually used to be spelled "loseyns" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CilkAVJLBUY1
MxM111 replykbin.socialDon't start me with things like eye. No chance to spell that correctly if you do not know the word - just random conglomerate of letters.4
aadj16 replylemmy.worldNormally I would implore you to post this to the community but idk about multiple lorsargna posts in one day3
ggiraffes_arent_real replyreddthat.comStill one of my favorite sketches. I love how judge got in on it too2
Tbf, these spellings make more sense than the actual spelling. How tf is Lasagna pronounced lasanya? Fuck you romance languages.
Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling...
Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it's trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.
As an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies...
As a Hungarian, me too. We spell everything exactly as we write it.
Edit: the reply is right, of course we pronounce everything as we write it.
I, uh... um, yeah. I would hope that you do. (I assume you mean you spell exactly as you speak lol)
But do you pronounce everything as you speak it? /s
Right. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.
Hell, it's spelled phonetically enough for English too. "gn" making the same sound as in "gnome" will pretty much get you there.
I guess to be fair it's just not a common phoneme, and spelling can be a crapshoot in English.
My dad used to say ghoti is pronounced fish.
GH as in rough
O as in women
TI as in ration
... Or it's completely silent. Like, the whole word.
GH as in although
O as in people
T as in ballet
I as in business
I wish I was named Tony now. I wish we all were named Tony.
https://youtu.be/9h7z2Ax3smQ?si=aFede8brBKj_xrdR
*par mayson
*Perry Mason
I'll take one case
Parmeyshawn
You can write that however you like, it's not an Italian word anyway. That would be "parmigiana", paar-mee-djaa-nah
Personally, I think it's really entertaining to say la-sag-na and see who cringes
That's my internal monologue so that I can remember how it's spelled.
Worst of all, sometimes they change the spelling but only to remove the diacritics that tell you how it's supposed to be pronounced
It actually used to be spelled "loseyns"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CilkAVJLBUY
gnin Italian is consistently pronounced likeñin Spanish.But with less flair
Don't start me with things like eye. No chance to spell that correctly if you do not know the word - just random conglomerate of letters.
Normally I would implore you to post this to the community but idk about multiple lorsargna posts in one day
I loves me some champaggin with my lesayna
sham pain
Real G's move in silence like lasagna.
PizSUH - SUH. LaZAnyuhZAnyuhZA.
Still one of my favorite sketches. I love how judge got in on it too
Plattnudelauflauf
Tender Vittles?