Agnostic (not a religious blog, a grammar blog :P)

[Clownbot]

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Shouldn't it be pronounced "agnostic" rather than "agnostic"?

It's derived from "gnostic," adding the prefix "a." AGNOSTIC.

But for some reason, it's pronounced "agnostic."

I mean atheism isn't pronounced "atheism," so it seems natural that agnostic would be pronounced in the same way.

The laws of English are ****ed up.

*may add more grammatical/pronunciation *****ing later*

 

[Deleted member]

It's no secret that our language is unnecessarily confusing.

 

[Omnicron's Baklava Enterprises]

I hated trying to learn English.

But I guess it came on fast since I was 5 years old or something...

 

[Frown]

Clownbot, you do realize that this is just one of thousands of words that have changed pronounciation over the years, don't you?

 

[Clownbot]

Clownbot, you do realize that this is just one of thousands of words that have changed pronounciation over the years, don't you?

Well, I wanna meet whoever changed it to slap some sense into him.

 

[Maniclysane]

Well, I wanna meet whoever changed it to slap some sense into him.

...Why? It was obviously changed due to dialect. People pronounce things differently. You don't seriously think someone just decided to change it, and it happened, did you?

 

[john!]

*walks in expecting a fierce religious debate*

...

*walks away disappointed*

But yeah, people found it easier to pronounce the "g"... English is crazy...

 

[Llumys]

English is simple compared to a lot of languages.

<_<;

 

[Clownbot]

...Why? It was obviously changed due to dialect. People pronounce things differently. You don't seriously think someone just decided to change it, and it happened, did you?

I was kind of joking with that last comment (obviously one person alone can't change the pronunciation of the word; if they could, I would've changed the word's pronunciation ages ago ), it just irks me that people pronounce it, well, differently than it should be pronounced. Perhaps it's not their fault if they didn't know the origin of the word, but I guess it's a pet peeve.

Spoiler

In case anyone's confused by this, I'm talking about people who pronounced it wrong back then, not now, since the correct pronunciation now is considered "agnostic."

English is simple compared to a lot of languages.

<_<;

For a lot of laws concerning the English language, there's an exception. This isn't true for many other languages.

 

[Jonkku]

There are much bigger problems with English pronunciation than that.

The whole vowel system of the English language has never heard of consistency.

 

[Frown]

For a lot of laws concerning the English language, there's an exception. This isn't true for many other languages.

*sigh*

ONE definite article. You don't have to learn der or das or die. The present, future and imperative forms of verbs are the same. The conjugation of the all verb tenses only change for third person, singular. The alphabet has 26 letters. Half the words in the language derive from others.

English is like, the ideal language.

 

[altairian]

*sigh*

ONE definite article. You don't have to learn der or das or die. The present, future and imperative forms of verbs are the same. The conjugation of the all verb tenses only change for third person, singular. The alphabet has 26 letters. Half the words in the language derive from others.

English is like, the ideal language.

Until you decide to try to learn to read and write it. Or pronounce a word written in english. Consistency is for the weak, I guess.

 

[Frown]

English is my second language.

 

[Mewter]

At least it's not German.
Der, die, das.
Whoever made that deserves a smack on the head and a pat on the back for consistency.

 

[Kholdstare]

Spanish is easy, Russian is moderate, German and English is hard, Japanese and Chinese are difficult.

 

[CRASHiC]

and speaking in Tongues is uber.