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Topic	Why is it pronounced
ParanoidObsessive 06/09/18 9:39:10 PM #15:	Bacon_Pancakes posted... Food like foo-d But good is guh-d Why isn't it fuh-d or goo-d For the same reason that vowels in general can be pronounced "long" or "short" (and consonants can be "hard" or "soft"). Because there are more phonemes in language than we currently have symbols to accurately represent (especially since we don't want to have to remember 50,000 different characters the way Chinese/Japanese handle it). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:902863810] in Why is it ... [t:76690794]...</cite> <quote><cite>Bacon_Pancakes posted...</cite> <quote>Food like foo-d But good is guh-d Why isn't it fuh-d or goo-d</quote> For the same reason that vowels in general can be pronounced "long" or "short" (and consonants can be "hard" or "soft"). Because there are more phonemes in language than we currently have symbols to accurately represent (especially since we don't want to have to remember 50,000 different characters the way Chinese/Japanese handle it). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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