Notices by Astarte (0shame@eldritch.cafe)

@elilla @Guillotine_Jones Yeah, my perception that Polish spelling makes no sense is really just the language having a lot of phonemes that I'm not familiar with and the orthography using Latin letters for different sounds than I expect.

Like, the word "księżyc" is pronounced /ˈkɕɛn.ʐɘt͡s/. If you have an English speaker listen to that and ask them to write it, they'll write something like "shanjits" which shares zero letters with the actual spelling. But the only part that's really that weird is the /n/, and there's probably some way of predicting that which I don't know about.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ksi%C4%99%C5%BCyc

@elilla So my impression of the relative sanity of orthographic systems is: Latin > French > English > Irish. And the Romans colonized the French colonized the English colonized the Irish. So maybe each time somewhat gets colonized they get worse at spelling.

(Probably Irish is actually more sane than English if you know it, but whenever I read an Irish word and then hear it pronounced the pronunciation and spelling seem to have hardly any connection at all. (Actually, I feel that way with Polish too. But Poland has been colonized a bunch of times too so maybe that validates the theory.))

Lmao

—You can connect your computer to the internet through wifi or ethernet.
—What's the difference?
—One goes through air and the other through a wire.
—Ok, so "ether" means air, so ethernet must be the one that goes through the air. And I guess the "wi" in "wifi" stands for wires.
—Nope, "wi" stands for wireless, and "ether" doesn't stand for anything.