• RedditRefugee69
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    4 hours ago

    As if cutting letters and syllables from words to make then more efficient isn’t a tradition as old as words, innit?

    But adding an invisible consonant? That’s insane.

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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      31 minutes ago

      It’s not because of efficiency or whatever you’re trying to say (and saying Kernel literally adds an R), military ranks especially have a long history of crossovers in languages and weirdness in pronunciation and spelling. And all 3 aren’t in line.

      Like wow it’s ok to not know these things, but you shouldn’t act all holier than thou. Ciao.