Language confusion
Aug. 23rd, 2005 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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atreic's journal reminded me of this odd snippet from my weekly phonecall home!
Dad told me that he'd been writing something and had started by saying `I am married' but when he'd finished he looked back having finished it said `I am period'. So he said to me `take the ee(/i:/) out of period and what do you have' to which I answered `perod' and sounded confused. He meant the letter e which leaves you with priod which is the Welsh for married whereas I'd removed the i (ee-dot in Welsh)! I'm not sure now whether I was thinking of the Welsh letter names (which like the Spanish ones make much more sense) or whether I was thinking in terms of sounds not letters so I took the /i:/ sound out of period, but it was just a very strange language confusion as the point was he'd got the wrong language and Word had auto-corrected him!
atreic's journal reminded me of this odd snippet from my weekly phonecall home!Dad told me that he'd been writing something and had started by saying `I am married' but when he'd finished he looked back having finished it said `I am period'. So he said to me `take the ee(/i:/) out of period and what do you have' to which I answered `perod' and sounded confused. He meant the letter e which leaves you with priod which is the Welsh for married whereas I'd removed the i (ee-dot in Welsh)! I'm not sure now whether I was thinking of the Welsh letter names (which like the Spanish ones make much more sense) or whether I was thinking in terms of sounds not letters so I took the /i:/ sound out of period, but it was just a very strange language confusion as the point was he'd got the wrong language and Word had auto-corrected him!
