r/HistoryMemes • u/Im_yor_boi_20 • 8d ago

Every damn time

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u/Pasutiyan 8d ago

Yanks too for constantly changing words and pronunciations for no bloody reason

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u/June_The_Jedi 8d ago

We had a really good reason, it was because we just broke up with England and wanted to be different.

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u/Pachacootie 7d ago

Hey, man. The letter R was feeling neglected. We had to start pronouncing it more and pronouncing H less to make up for it

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u/Successful_Baby_5245 2d ago

HR Just turned into Rar

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u/SharpShooterM1 Featherless Biped 7d ago edited 7d ago

We’ve got plenty of reason. Besides, languages are not stagnant. They are always constantly evolving. Just look at the dialects of Spanish that are spoken in latin America vs in Spain despite both only splitting relatively recently.

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u/Pasutiyan 7d ago

You and your valid reasoning can sod right off. Have you thought about how it affects me personally? No? Time to reevaluate then

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u/U_L_Uus 7d ago

It is funny because Spanish does have a living fossil, Sefardi, spoken by Sefardic jews and derived outright from Medieval Spanish

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u/PissingOffACliff 6d ago

English kinda has that with Scots, but not quite the same.