How the fuck does "ti" make a sh sound.

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Imagine pronouncing patient as "pay-tee-ent" or partial as "party-al". It wouldn't sound right. So we turn the "ti" into a "sh" and voila, you have the words patient and partial, pronounced correctly.
 
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Womble of Wimbledon said:
Imagine pronouncing patient as "pay-tee-ent" or partial as "party-al". It wouldn't sound right. So we turn the "ti" into a "sh" and voila, you have the words patient and partial, pronounced correctly.
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I assume OP's question extends itself into attempting to understand why it "sounds bad" or "not right". If you're going to say because it's easier and also takes less syllables, there may be other examples that would also apply, but they're not changed.

Or if that's enough of a justification to make (apparently) arbitrary rules.
 
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Look at where English came from, fucking England. Null hates the English for a reason. Their language is total inconsistent bullshit, and then those fuckers had to go and conquer the whole world and force their language to become the world language of international trade.
 
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DoubleMint said:
English is an stupid language and should be replaced by emojis
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It's an evolving language that mixed with other languages so it has janky parts that just about work. Laziness smooths out the pronunciation over time. Imagine how differently we'll pronounce skibidi (as in "skibidi toilet") once this generation grows up.

The issue with emoji languages is that they tend to add more emojis in order to be more specific. Bing bang boom welcome to Traditional Chinese. Then that was smoothed out into Simplified Chinese by giving multiple different words the same gawdamn emoji. However people communicate, it'll get deep enough and personalized enough that it's a nuisance to learn.

edit: In the future, tits is pronounced "shits".
 
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it was pronounced that way in the 15th century when they standardized the spelling
some english people do say parTially and waiTer, but they're considered snobs
 
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Prokhor Zakharov said:
How the hell else are you supposed to pronounce it??
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wader, like someone walking through a few feet of water, way-der
say waiter and wader a few times and see if you can hear any difference
We were waiting at the wading restaurant when the wading waiter brought us our water with very little wait.
 
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