Other way to spell Fish

Kappar

I seen this recently mabey you've seen it already but it's G.B. Shaw's different way to spell fish he says that it can be spelt Ghoti. He says that it you take the 'Gh' from Laugh and the 'O' from Women and the 'Ti' from Nation it will read Fish I was just wondering if you know anymore. And yes i'm just about to Google it but i thought i'd post it cause it's interesting.

ColinM

Never heard of that before. It's pretty cool.

Runfree

Well it sounds the same if you take the words apart.

gh from Laugh sounds like an F
O from Women sounds like an I
TI from Nation sounds like SH

So it does sound like Fish

But it is spelled different.

Gordon

I've been trying so hard to get a word! It's easy to get the letters but making them into a word is tricky. I'll have a stab at...

Teausstgk

Take
the T from Venture
the eau from beautiful
the ss from dessert
the t from bidet
the silent g from feign and
the silent k from know...
and you get....

Choosy!

on another note - I just made up another word today - Slagmanic. I think my word Teausstgk deserves a SLAGMANIC point for being silly.

Runfree

Gordon,

Have I ever told you that I think your a bit loopy.

RunFree

Gordon

Oh, was it just meant to be fish?

Phyci

...take the Ph from physicalitynessential
the y from physicalitotiousnesstastic
and the ci from spacial..

.. now that's what I call Slagmanic.

Runfree

Originally posted by Gordon
Oh, was it just meant to be fish?

Phyci

...take the Ph from physicalitynessential
the y from physicalitotiousnesstastic
and the ci from spacial..

.. now that's what I call Slagmanic.

Those real words????
Im calling a nut house for you man.

Gordon

Nut house? what does that mean?? Maybe you mean...

Gnod jowst

take the gn from sign
the o from tongue
the d from fixed

take the j from jalapeno
the ow from Howitzer
the st from listen

ad infinitum..

Sangre

Originally posted by Runfree
Well it sounds the same if you take the words apart.

gh from Laugh sounds like an F
O from Women sounds like an I
TI from Nation sounds like SH

So it does sound like Fish

But it is spelled different.

Is it a bird, is it a plane? NO!
Its Captain Obvious!

Runfree

Originally posted by Gordon
Nut house? what does that mean?? Maybe you mean...

Gnod jowst

take the gn from sign
the o from tongue
the d from fixed

take the j from jalapeno
the ow from Howitzer
the st from listen

ad infinitum..

ok you should write a book like that.
NUTTER!!!!

I Like you!!

ColinM

Originally posted by Sangre
Is it a bird, is it a plane? NO!
Its Captain Obvious!

"Normally I'm not a praying man but if you're up there
somewhere... please save me Captain Obvious!" - Homer Simpson (nearly!)

Yoda

It may amuse some to learn that there are two Klingon words for fish. One is bIqDep 'water-creature', and the other is ghotI'.

ColinM

So do you reckon they got it from Shaw then?
I don't mind them doing this, as long as they don't come here taking our jobs as well.

Yoda

Okrand (creator of Klingon) is a trained linguist and of course he knew what he was doing when he coined ghotI' for 'fish'.

ColinM

When you say that this linguist knew what he was doing, do you mean that he was cunningly borrowing Shaw's idea?
Furthermore, can we agree that the majority of the claims for asylum made by these people are indeed fraudulent?

Yoda

Yes, of course he knew of Shaw's ghoti and imported this word into the language on purpose.

ColinM

So, not content with speaking a language which owes at least one of its words to the whimsical observations of one of our most famous Anglo-Irish playwrights, they are now making a nuisance of themselves by walking between the traffic begging at stop-lights - is that what you are saying?

Yoda

I didn't say anything about Klingons and whatever habits you seem to think they have. I noted that Shaw's famous complaint about English spelling had been taken by another linguist and enshrined in his constructed language.

dod

easier just to spell it correctly: phish