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Nov 13, 2022, 12:05 PM
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Desert Kitty hates titles
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Member Since: Jul 2008
Location: TARDIS
Posts: 12,526
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Originally Posted by *Beth*
Whew. Suddenly, I thought I had it entirely wrong! Although narc (narsss) would make more sense, considering it comes from "narcisssistic."
I love language. Although how anyone whose first language is not English learns to speak it is beyond me!
At least "toxic" sounds exactly like it's spelled  |
I tried to quote both of your posts but it won't work this time for some reason. So one at a time! And I'm not posting about it in tech support.
Hard C, soft C....I've forgotten all those rules.  True "narsss", would sound better since it comes from narcissistic. I see it's "nark", a "hard" C?
I read somewhere English is the hardest language in the world to learn. We have so many words that sound alike but are spelled differently with different meanings. (And there's a word for THAT which eludes me at this moment) "Red" and "read" (past tense of read, which is spelled the same---confusing to someone learning) are pronounced the same. But completely different meaning. "Two, too, to". "See, sea." I "saw" her there. But they bought a new "saw".
I've also wondered how English SOUNDS to people who can't understand a word. But I don't have anyone who can tell me. For example I think Italian and Spanish sound very musical, it goes up and down. Mandarin too. Do we sound like that? I'll never know. I never even took a class on learning English, so in hindsight I don't know how I learned.  Must be innate.
Toxic does get pronounced as it looks, thankfully. And it's very accurate to describe a lot of things. Places (like a toxic waste dump) AND PEOPLE (toxic friend).
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