Post #2660327
2026-05-06 20:22 UTC
@saposcat@indieauthors.social
I'm fine with ghoti being an early and badly designed example of "Fun With Phonics" from a time before stnadardized spelling was even a thing. As that, it's amusing.
Unfortunately that isn't how it gets tossed around online. Too many people have adopted it as their favorite "proof" example of English being flawed/ broken/ridiculous when it proves nothing of the sort. (The same kind of substitution wordplay can be done in many alphabet-based written languages.)
So that annoys me.
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@kmherkes@wandering.shop 2026-05-06 20:24
@saposcat@indieauthors.social Makes it a good word to inspire good, rousing SaM conversations, though. :D
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@saposcat@indieauthors.social 2026-05-06 21:41
@kmherkes@wandering.shop I can definitely see where you're coming from. I don't remember the contexts I've seen it in the few times I've come across it, but I remember having an 'oh neat' sort of reaction to it.