HOW CAN A GUY BE SO DUM?????

The neologist inserted a p
into the word: laff.

I inquired into his reasoning.

dum is the spelling of an Arabic percussion stroke - pronounced doom

(another reason to be entertained rather than enlightened by any of omsig's posts)

dum dum tak dum tak

(aka doom doom tuck doom tuck)

Tell it to the Chinese, David, who have to learn a minimum of 2000 symbol... that is why they generally do better than caucasians on IQ tests, because their minds get far more exercise learning to write.

It is poor judgment to add a b
to the word dum (meaning stupid) because when pronounced,
no b is evident.

It is poor judgment to add a b
to the word dum (meaning stupid) because when pronounced,
no b is evident.

Really?
That's odd, for you see, when I pronounce the word dumb there indeed is a b.
It's a soft b, however it is most definitely there.

If the b were not there then it would sound more in line with the word drum at the ending.

(then again, I have a habit of dropping the letter r at the end of words like anger and river= anga and riva.

Don't be worried though because it shows up again in many words which end in an a.)

Besods which if there weren't a b at the end then I'm sure the dictionary would so indicate.

MontereyJack wrote:

Not to mention the fact that what david calls fonetic is not in fact consistently phonetic at all. "u" for "you" would be pronouned "oo" as in moon if it were phonetic, not "you" as david is using it. That is in fact logographic not phonetic, it's using the way the letter u is pronounced when it is not part of a word as if it were in fact a phonetic unit, which it is not. Similarly "ez" is not "easy" phonetically. It is again pronouncing it logographically, as the names of the letters are pronounced.

Right; the idea is service of fast, ez convenience for those who use it.
Y shud the Spanish be better off than English speakers?????????

It is poor judgment to add a b
to the word dum (meaning stupid) because when pronounced,
no b is evident.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

MontereyJack wrote:

Not to mention the fact that what david calls fonetic is not in fact consistently phonetic at all. "u" for "you" would be pronouned "oo" as in moon if it were phonetic, not "you" as david is using it. That is in fact logographic not phonetic, it's using the way the letter u is pronounced when it is not part of a word as if it were in fact a phonetic unit, which it is not. Similarly "ez" is not "easy" phonetically. It is again pronouncing it logographically, as the names of the letters are pronounced.

Right; the idea is service of fast, ez convenience for those who use it.
Y shud the Spanish be better off than English speakers?????????

Spanish isn't written or pronounced logographically.

The word y, "and" in Spanish is pronounced approximately like the way the name for the English letter "e" is pronounced. If the Spanish word [i[y[/i] were to be pronounced logographically, it would be pronouned i griega, "Greek I."

It is poor judgment to add a b
to the word dum (meaning stupid) because when pronounced,
no b is evident.

now that you've confirmed that you pronounce the word dumb incorrectly,
what should we all do with that information?