Comments | clytemnestra215: A Brief Linguistic Protest

clytemnestra215

A Brief Linguistic Protest

Jun 06, 2010 04:30

Sela = me ( Read more... )

no of course i am not obsessed, we hate erich, important philosophical debates, pedantic, linguistics, chat logs, greek, suz is a bit odd, i'll get over it eventually, rooooaaarr!!!!, more time spent writing tags than entry, o rly, emo one-liners, treachery, bah

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eniariom June 6 2010, 09:31:25 UTC

Um, shouldn't be borne, right? :D

clytemnestra215 June 6 2010, 12:30:20 UTC

Oh yes, that. I looked it up in the dictionary and even googled it and still I couldn't find it! I was fairly certain I spelled it wrongly.

thelordduke June 6 2010, 15:38:29 UTC

Qitar (The Moors) -> QUitar -> GUitar! Tada!

thelordduke June 6 2010, 15:38:58 UTC

So really, it's G who is out of place.

clytemnestra215 June 6 2010, 23:13:16 UTC

Nope. Q, G, K, C and to some extent X (as pronounced in Greek, like 'chaos' which is spelled xi - alpha - omicron - sigma) are all interchangeable letters throughout languages with cognates. If you listen to yourself you can hear how they are almost the same sound.

thelordduke June 7 2010, 00:31:36 UTC

Nevertheless, I think it's clear that U has a right to be there.

gillandred June 7 2010, 00:36:09 UTC

It's because the guitar needs U to play, Suz!!!

Or else, it's because all the extra u's we took out of the words "colour" and "humour" and "flavour" have to go somewhere, right? Right??