▲ 161 r/linguisticshumor
English should go through a training-montage to make all its weak verbs strong
English’ been skipping the gym, and I’m not about to speak a language that weak. That’s why I propose we should do a training-montage where all the weak verbs become strong verbs
Some examples I have are use/yose (like ”choose/chose”), bang/bung (like ”hang/hung”) and feast faste (like ”eat/ate”)
u/ElevatorSevere7651 — 25 days ago
▲ 1 r/Spanish
Why does ”fui” and the other indefinido conjugations of ir/ser start with <f> and not <h>?
As I’ve understood the soundchanges between Latin and Spanish, initial [f] becomes [h] before being dropped entirely, just look at facio > hacer, filius > hijo
So why then does the decendant of Latin ”fui” (and its conjugation” get to keep that initial [f], instead of following the expected soundchange?
u/ElevatorSevere7651 — 3 months ago