"English, the great multicultural endeavor"

This is a ghoti. That's the new English term for fish.



Related post: "English, the great multicultural endeavor" by Michael Brady

Stolen quotes:


"A long time ago, some wag concocted the word "ghoti," that is, "fish," which was composed of the /f/ sound of "gh" in "cough," the /i/ sound of "o" in "women," and the /sh/ sound of "ti" in any "tion" word.


>sigh<


How wrong-headed that complaint is."

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"The English language is the world's greatest multicultural project. Any word can come from anywhere else and stay at any of five main English residences: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and interjections. (For structural reasons, the smaller English enclaves of pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions are highly restricted—nobody's been in or out in a long looooong time.)

If you're a foreign word, you are free to come in—no immigration controls, no quotas, no visa restrictions. There are only a few rules: If you dress in a non-Latin alphabet, you'll have to change into Latin clothes; if you walk across the page from right to left, well, you'll have to do it the other way 'round; if you like to make odd sounds that aren't among the 45 or so English phonemes, then the natives will find some for you that sound almost the same."

Ha-ha!