If you put a "s" in front of the "sh" in chivalry, they turn into a "k" like in schism

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It does? How do you figure?

  That would just be a miss-spelling of chivalry.

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  • digger@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    English is like three languages stacked on top of one another while wearing a trenchcoat, pretending to be a single language.

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And also randomly welding on other languages for fun

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  English makes perfect sense—it’s all the other languages we keep stealing words from who can’t agree on a common spelling system.

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a Norwegian, I am fully aware that my ancestors helped created the English language by first invading the welsh isles, and then, three generations after invading the Francs, we invaded the isles again with romance speaking nobility for generations.

    English is a Nordic made Francish/Welsh/Germanic creole that was made popular by the still Norwegian blooded crown.

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• Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But only sometimes, of course

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of course, wouldn’t want consistency or anything trivial like that.

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You act like language is planned (other than Esperanto).

      No language is consistent.

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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We didn’t do most of the fuckery in English. It was the Normans, while they were in charge, who forced scribes to use screwed-up French spelling for words.

  It’s always the god-damned French.

  (jk, love you France! 🩷)

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You didn’t do most of the fuckery in Welsh, then the Normans from the north came, you paid the danelaw, but we settled either way, influencing the Welsh language, and the we also took Paris, but the Scandics became romance before two generations later reuniting with their people in the isles, creating what is now known as the French creole language called english*.

    *The US-ians have made available a simplified version of the language for the learning impaired.

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• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why would you add an “s” to the word “chivalry” though?

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  • unfnknblvbl@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    so we could say "schivalry" der ;)

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Schivelry? 🤨

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kivalry?

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How do you pronounce “schedule”?

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Skedual

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I used to pronounce it “sk”, but in my new job, working with schedules with a Londoner, it is now “sh” for me. Undoing the US-ification of my English one word at a time.

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At least we only have one “the”

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is like the linguistic version of drive through banking. No one gains from over simplifying something to such extremes.

    It just makes it simple. Like available for the special need people kind of simple.

    But then again, you guys made the word “literal” mean “figuratively”, so there is some schooling potential. Some.

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah you’re right it’s really important to use “der” for Apfel because Äpfel are men or something lmao

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Schlep

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kivalry?

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• NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I fucking hate English

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