listening to litwtc and drawing will instead of doing work B]
william has many emotions on the Funny Podcast, including but not limited to: drawing a Silly Picture, confusion, cannibalism joke, and static-in-the-brain shock. he’s so real for that.
thing's i've been rotating around in my head like a microwave lately: the way native english speakers learn to speak and write english without ever being taught its history
i listen to a podcast on the history of the english language and there were a few episodes rencently-ish on pronunciation (159-161). He explained how voiced vs unvoiced consonants work, how semivowels and approximates work.
SO MANY SPELLING MYSTERIES can be explained by "we froze the spellings after the invention of the printing press, but because pronouncing X is difficult, we shifted to the voiced/unvoiced counterpart of that latter/dropped a syllable". it's like 3rd eye open on how we spell and say things
some consonant sounds are formed by movements of the tongue/mouth to constrict the sound coming out. some are formed by doing that and activating the voicebox. those are unvoiced sounds (no voicebox) and voiced sound (voicebox activated).
f is unvoiced. v is voiced.
why is it wives but a singular wife? well, originally it was wife and wifas (or various other suffixes back when english had a conjugation system like spanish/french/etc). When the suffix became a single s sound it was really hard to say. wifes. try it. it's hard. that's cause all the sounds in that word are voiced except the f and swapping to the unvoiced version for a single sound is hard. so we started saying wives. v is the voiced version of f so the motion of your mouth is exactly the same.
rotating like a microwave y'all
(most of the remaining 75% of spelling mysteries can be explained by:
some pretentious jerk decided to make the spelling look more like its greek/latin roots in the 1500s but we kept pronouncing it the way it's spelled
nobody knew how to pronounce the word so they guessed off the spelling and guessed wrong
gothic script made it hard to read things with lots of u, i, m, n etc next to each other so the scribes fucked with it so they could read the goofy handwriting style
The Great Vowel Shift Strikes Again
this word got adopted after a bunch of spelling shenanigans from a country that doesn't have X rule and we kept the original spelling
someone tried to standardize the spelling system to make things easier and people were like "yeah! great idea" and followed the rule about half the time leading to an even less standardized system)
Ik I'm a little late with the podcast and I'm start season 2 tomorrow but HOLY FUCKING SHIT THE ENDING FOR DUNGEON AND DADDIES WAS SO FUCKING AMAZIN I BAWLED LISTENING TO THE OUTRO GOING HOME FOR LUNCH
I wrangled my high depressed toddler brain onto a different lighter thing by putting on my favorite stupid silly podcast except I was in the middle of listening to it last time and stopped for some reason so I was in the middle of the episode and when I hit play my high depressed brain was greeted with this and I laughed so hard I cried
Yes, the hubris of Pizza Hut is the stuff of a Greek tragedy. But this is not a story about failure, it's a story about hope, about what can be reclaimed, about the possibilities of what could have emerged amongst what could have never been dreamed up from the outset. A mollusk dies, and a hermit crab moves into its shell.
(practically I know john is most easily portrayed as a normal hooded guy with a mask but deep down my heart of hearts still belongs to mergo's wet nurse)