Re: OT: Amazon is down

In the Netherlands we have a journalist named Wierd Duk. He worked as a foreign correspondent for some time. I wonder how that was.

So wie-rd or wi-erd depending on the reader's preference?

Yesterday he managed to spell it: OT: Gigabyte motherboard drivers, WEIRD

He also needed to bawl about Amazon there: OT: Amazon not responding

why are you using my post as sig, and what's with the stupid cross-posting?

it doesn't work "dickhEAd"

if you mangle context you get no useful answer.

I'm a little saddened by the way the UK media is increasingly preferring what I think of as the northern pronunciation of "either" as eether rather than my accustomed eyether...

On 2020-09-15, John Doe wrote in response:

Noone is surprised.

fiery

Real sharp, now you're telling yourself.

No, dopey, your fake word could as well be pronounced wired. Because the "ie" in lots of words has the same pronunciation as in fiery.

Just remember how to spell it and you won't have to make up silly arguments about pronunciation rules for your misspelled words.

John Doe, weasel:

I'm sure you don't know what concise means. Will you explain how English is concise?

I have not so described English. But if you consider a language with severely limited vocabulary, you potentially have to use more basic words so convey a subtle concept. E.g. compare with Pidgin English.

Your example failed. There was no rule there to follow anyway.

Ambiguous, already.

That wasn't very concise either. Are you going to explain how English is a concise language?

John Doe weasel:

I guess you're jacking off now.

Ha-ha-ha!

The weasel has.

What I found regarding Pidgin English says it's used typically in commerce at Chinese shipping ports. I still don't know what it is. I enjoy reading Chinglish quick-start guides.

American Sign Language may be concise, if any language is.