Speling Iz Hardd

[princeofcairo]

Although this is merely me venting spelling peeves, it riffs from Polliticks, so I'm placing it

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[badger]

I twitch every time someone uses the wrong spelling of ordnance / ordinance.

[anonymous]

My all-time peeve would be "it's" instead of "its." Actually, it's also the incorrect use of apostrophes in plurals. And you can see that in signage, billboards - the works. Is it really that hard a concept?

Re: Whad'ya expect...

[anonymous]

for a car, I think bullet-ridden might actually work... if the car kept moving after the shooting.

[jhkim]

Yeah!! You know what's worse is the horrible mispellings of "Peking" out there. I mean, come on!!

I've seen it as "Peiking" and "Beiking" and even "Beijing" -- which isn't even close to the proper English spelling.

[muckefuck]

As "doughnut" gave way to "donut", thus did "Peking" to "Beijing". Or perhaps you would prefer "Pei-p'ing"?

[jholloway]

That's a joke, friend.

[muckefuck]

Right back atcha, 사나이야!

[muckefuck]

Classical Mongolian in Old Uyghur or 'Phags-pa script distinguished between the letters and , whereas the current Cyrillic script has only the former. So represents a faithful transliteration of the Classical spelling (which, as mentioned above, is still in use in some quarters). It's possible that this is a holdover from Old Uyghur and the distinction is subphonemic in Mongolian; I couldn't say without doing a little more research.

I write "Chinggis" in English for the same reason that I write "Caesar" and not "Cesare" (as modern Romans do). Unless I'm actually writing in Mongolian, "Chingis" for me could only refer to an eponymous modern Mongolian.

I have to admit that the Pinyin "Chengjisihan" looks like someone is just being silly, though.

Standard Chinese lacks the sequence gi, since all occurences palatalised to ji in Beijing speech a couple centuries ago. (This, incidentally, explains the Peking/Beijing confusion: The first represents the unshifted pronunciation current in the 18th century when that

[muckefuck]

This webpage (part of a lovely websuite for learning Classical Mongolian) shows you exactly how to write "Chinggis" in the Uyghur-derived script. According to The world's writing systems, the character for was a Mongol innovation and Old Uyghur made do with the digraph + .

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[anonymous]

So Gandee likes to eat donuts with Genkis in Peeking. Your joking. Seems relatively harmless by the by.