• Shihali@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    You’re about twenty centuries too late on the χ thing. You’re gonna need to go back and talk to the Romans.

      • Shihali@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        On thinking it over, “proper” spelling of foreign words has done its own share of damage to English spelling. We don’t just have to learn our own spelling conventions, we also have to learn foreign ones. Or not (sent to you from Cairo, Illinois, locally pronounced “care-oh”)

      • Shihali@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        It’ll be part of the great English spelling reform. Until then, it’s going to be spelled the way we Romanized Greek in the 16th century.