God damnit! I can never recall whether whether is spelled weather or wether or wheter without looking it up! 🤬

If you're dutch, it would always be weather. Only thing we talk about. I told you many years ago, you're too German too function. Maybe you should become Dutch. We have a good health care to help you. You van come as refugee. We do not really care where they come from.

@whimsical The same in Belgium, we only complain about the weather. It's usually the first thing we talk about after the greeting and the greeting is often optional lol

@whimsical But I can’t just become Dutch.
I’d always remain a German who lives in the Netherlands (isn’t that a biome in Minecraft btw?)
You can’t just unlearn decades of Germanism by moving to another country.
And I‘d rather move to Switzerland, they have the hottest accent ever. Not like the inferior baby German accent from the Dutch.

@Lensflare dude, even when you're black with a knife between your teeth and a gang tattoo living two weeks in the Netherlands and you commit a murder, we'll say "Dutchman committed a murder.". You don't have to be dutch at all to be dutch. As our queen literally says "The Dutchman doesn't exist". Welcome!

@Lensflare you only have to say frikandelbroodje and you're dutch. You also will get a driving license, first rape goes unpunished. Second one if her her skirt was very short. We are reasonable people.

Other fun, misleading thing is with, which, witch.

Also, try spelling 'maneuver' in en_GB, now. That one's a troublemaker - I always need to think for a moment how it actually goes.

@whimsical > '"The Dutchman doesn't exist".'.

Correct. You have the world renowned '_Flying_ Dutchman'.

/jk

@D-4got10-01 indeed, also "ambiguous":
Always starting to type ambige… and then it doesn’t make sense.
And how the fuck do you know whether (argh) between or bitween is correct? Or if it’s rediculous or ridiculous? Sometimes i is correct, sometimes it’s e!
🤬

@Lensflare Yup. English has many of those gotchas. There are probably some rules to those, but mostly it's a committing to memory thing.

The 'i' vs 'y' && 'c' vs 'k' vs 'ck' are also tricky.

...speaking of... the pronunciation of 'ch' is also a real problem.

'character' : 'k',

'choke' : 'tsch',

'Chicago' : 'sh'.

...seriously - make up your mind...

you'll wither wherever the weather goes whether you know it or not

I've made a beautiful rant but it dissappeared uppon creation 😭 so I posed it at devplace.net.

@whimsical https://devrant.com/rants/19404083/...

when you post and it does slim error it seems it posts it but only on your profile and not on the recent feeds page. then you can't post it again because technically you already posted (though in devrant if you delete your <2 hour ago post you can post again because the timer limit is based on your last post)

Perhaps I can help.

"which of two; whichever" implying choice.

Constructed from the interrogative base "who" + comparative suffix -theraz (þeraz) where "þ" is read as "th"/"theraz"

-> hwæþer = whether (="which of two", old English). Example: "Hwæþer is betera?" ("Which is better?") (interrogative)

-> old English lost their sounds and so it merged from æ to e

-> after Norman Conquest (1066), English "hw" was reversed to "wh" and replaced þ (thorn) with "th", so hwæþer → whæther, æ got merged into "e" or "a"

-> the language weakened from "-az" to "a" (from "-theraz") and finally vowel sound "a" also lost, so "-theraz" became "-ther"

-> thus resolving into "whether"

Complete deconstruction:

hweaber -> whaeber

ae -> e

theraz -> ther

finally -> whe + ther -> whether

sources: etymonline.com, ChatGPT

@CaptainRant I know the difference and when to use which. I just can’t remember the correct spelling.
Ironically, writing that rant helped me to memorize the spelling :)
We will see whether it’ll work.

*checking the spelling…*

Yes!

P.S.: þeraz = "the other of two/which of the two"

@Lensflare I was figuring that providing the etymology would automatically remove doubts from the spelling. Glad you got it sorted.