My gut instinct was the teacher wasn't English and just thought everyone spelt it the same as in his first language. Now I know here in sunny wales it can be spelt terodactil (but it's usually spelt the English way) so I did a bit googling and was surprised to find different spellings around the world.
But that got me thinking. America dropped the "u" from colour, favourite, honour, analogue became analog (which to the British is an unpassable turd). etc I'm sure you can think of more. They did it to make words more phonetic and easier to spell.
So why doesn't America spell pterodactyl phonetically? In fact, why doesn't America spell most English words phonetically. If you've dropped a "u" why not go the full hog and spell pterodactyl terodactil? Especially as America is more diverse than the UK it would make more sense.
Why doesn't America spell everything phonetically?
Brits used to not use all those Us in words like color and neighbor, until Louis XIV, the Sun King, made France the world's superpower in the 1660s and made everything French trendy and influential, particularly among the English elites. That's when English was French-ified and all of those Us started showing up. But America had already been colonized prior to that, and so the colonies didn't adopt those changes as quickly or as thoroughly as the UK, and so when the printing press revealed a need for standardization, those French-inspired spellings were eliminated in the US, but obviously not in the UK.
What clearly didn't happen was any anglicization of the Greek and Latin words used by classically educated scientists. And there's simply no push to make official changes like that, though I guess it's kind of surprising there isn't, given that most people can't spell today and don't understand the origin of common phrases. Every time I see someone say "the point is mute" or "they're job is to get in there car, so that their safe from being ran over, " I want to slap someone.
As a responsible netizen and aspiring moderator, I believe that it is important to be vigilant against any form of discrimination, or maltreatment, especially online. This is why when I came across a question that implies Americans are dumb and unable to read between the lines, it immediately caught my attention.
The post insinuates that the Americans should spell fonetically to make it easier for them to understand. This is a problematic statement that perpetuates the stereotype that Americans are unintelligent.
I believe that this type of discourse is not only insensitive and demeaning but also goes against the principles of inclusion and diversity that we should uphold online. It is important to respect people's differences and not generalize or stereotype individuals based on their nationality.
Furthermore, the post makes a clear indication of the importance of fonetics. This is not only inaccurate but also undermines the complexity and nuances of language. Spelling and grammar are important aspects of language that play key roles in conveying meaning and expression. They are not just mere technicalities that can be overlooked or simplified.
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English, particularly American English, is an amalgamation of 100+ languages. It is a borrower language that borrows words from romantic languages as well as germanic and Nordic languages, then throws in words (or messed up versions of words) from every Natice American language they encountered (some of which by that point were also using words borrowed (and mispronounced) from the Spanish and French. Then you mix in words borrowed from Mexican Spanish, which is an amalgamation of Spanish, their Native American languages, and some influence from the Chinese as well, oh, and American English a little influence from Chinese as well..
So you take ALL of that, mix it into a pot with frontier literacy and education and you get: one of, if not THE most confusing and difficult language to learn on the planet with more exceptions than rules! Congratulations world, we all worked together to make a language "whack"
I met a woman the other day for the first time... Her name was spelled Melanie... and she her name was Melony. I kept calling her Mel- lan-ie. like Mel-A-nie or mel-annie... But no it was Melony. Like seriously, that's not how you spell Melony... her parents were immigrants though.
But English has always been subjective to the foreign influences. From the time of the Celts, to the Romans to the Saxons, to the Britons... English is not really a true Bristish language. Like the name Brit'ish is literally like saying Briton'ish. Not Britons, but just a little Briton' ish... ish means from the country of or similar to the mean of, but not exactly any specfic one thing.
So, English can be manipulated in all types of ways, which is the defining equality of the language... because it is constantly changing, and evolving to incorporate different cultures and means. Which is all the British has ever done through out their history, and the Americans just took it to another level.
then we can try to understand why the English language has so many oddities, whether its version is British, American, Australian, South African or Martian.
Actually I can. The village came up we with the name as a tourist attraction. It's an insignificant place you drive past to get to more touristy areas so they thought a long name would get people to stop, take photos, buy stuff etc. It's actually designed to be hard for tourists to say, just for fun, but given welsh is phonetic once you know the rules anyone can read it. Or if you want to sound local just call it Llanfair P G. Welsh pronunciation is very easy it's the grammar that everyone even the Welsh struggles with
'Analog' isn't just an unpassable turd, it's the work of none other than the Devil himself. And what's the deal with 'aluminum'? It's aluminium! Petrol, not "gas". The fuel you put in your car isn't a gas, it's a liquid. And no, I don't go to the 'bathroom' (or worse, 'rest room'), I go to the toilet.
The different accents in the various regions of USA would make the language often unrecognizable. "Pock tha cah." or similar in part of New England. "Canader" instead of Canada and "wauduh" instead of water in parts of New York and so on.
I usually hold out trolling idiocy for things average people should know. Perhaps I give too much leeway. I do suffer from autocorrect, as we all do. And sometimes I need to look up words.
I think a recent post on your relgious beliefs i had to google…but if someone can’t spell pterodactyl right on the first try I don’t really have that big an issue. (I didn’t, apparently, auto correct helped me)
because grammar has a rule silent p sykology is spelled psychology. American English was born from blending latin with northern languages. like Wednesday. many words are spelled for "recognize and read them". so we cannot change spelling.
My theory is the names of creatures and organisms have to fall in line with proxy codes established by scientific communities so they can't arbitrarily change a spelling if the phonetic sound is different from the letter display because it could impact other creatures with circumscribed titles in the scientific community by mixing them into confusion or arbitrarily removing verbal patterns that protect a scientific sequence of terms.
People just don't like change. It's the same reason we resist the metric system... which actually makes a whole lot more sense. It would be like me telling you to start writing with your non-dominant hand.
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