• @Makeshift@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    211 months ago

    The inventor can call it whatever he wants, but it’s not going to change the pronunciation that has stuck with the general public. Language isn’t some decided upon thing that one person gets to control, it is a tool that naturally evolves and changes over time as it spreads from person to person

      • @Makeshift@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        211 months ago

        There is no agreed way to pronounce it.

        so you agree then that one person doesn’t get to decide what the pronunciation is, and there is no “official” way to say it (although, the majority of people use the hard g - source)

        • ren (a they/them)
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          111 months ago

          lol, no, I’m saying pop culture hasn’t decided yet, silly.

          I just find the weirdos who forget soft G’s exist ridiculous.