Tbf, these spellings make more sense than the actual spelling. How tf is Lasagna pronounced lasanya? Fuck you romance languages.
Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling...
Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it's trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.
As an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies...
Right. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.
My dad used to say ghoti is pronounced fish.
GH as in rough
O as in women
TI as in ration
I wish I was named Tony now. I wish we all were named Tony.
*par mayson
You can write that however you like, it's not an Italian word anyway. That would be "parmigiana", paar-mee-djaa-nah
Personally, I think it's really entertaining to say la-sag-na and see who cringes
That's my internal monologue so that I can remember how it's spelled.
Ask the English speakers who imported words like lasagna and baguette without changing the spelling to lasanya or baget.
Worst of all, sometimes they change the spelling but only to remove the diacritics that tell you how it's supposed to be pronounced
Tbf, these spellings make more sense than the actual spelling. How tf is Lasagna pronounced lasanya? Fuck you romance languages.
Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling...
Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it's trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.
As an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies...
Right. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.
My dad used to say ghoti is pronounced fish.
GH as in rough
O as in women
TI as in ration
I wish I was named Tony now. I wish we all were named Tony.
*par mayson
You can write that however you like, it's not an Italian word anyway. That would be "parmigiana", paar-mee-djaa-nah
Personally, I think it's really entertaining to say la-sag-na and see who cringes
That's my internal monologue so that I can remember how it's spelled.
Worst of all, sometimes they change the spelling but only to remove the diacritics that tell you how it's supposed to be pronounced
It actually used to be spelled "loseyns"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CilkAVJLBUY
gn
in Italian is consistently pronounced likeñ
in Spanish.But with less flair