On 20/08/2022 12:28, Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX wrote:
My question is if English language speakers learn in school why they write history and not istory. The answer seems to be: No. What you say is completely irrelevant. BTW, languages evolve and brathings were introduced for a reason that does not exist today. So it was to eliminate breathings from Modern Greek. In ancient Greek the letter β was pronounced as b but today it is pronounced as v. So this is yet another mistake according to your position. For me it is evolution.
I have no axe to grind in this intra-Hellenic debate, but may I ask the two protagonists whether they view the current American practice of both pronouncing and spelling the phrase "want to" as "wanna" (as in "I wanna go to the mall" — see Youtube captions, for countless examples) as evolution or crass ignorance ?
-- /Philip Taylor/
