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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I oversimplified a bit! Sorry!

    Words always shift over time and borders. The words “recu” and “receive/receipt” are pretty close and used to be closer. To be more accurate it was “receite” when they adopted it from French. Compared to Latin “recepta” which has a hard P in it. So adding “P” from Latin to the spelling as “receipt” but leaving the pronunciation as Anglo-French “receite” was the most silly part.


  • English is a hilarious mess. The word “receite” originated from Latin but came to England through France at which point it had mutated to modern pronunciation as “recu”, so they shoved a few extra and silent letters in there and spelled it “receipt” to pretend they got it from Latin even though they kept pronouncing it more French.





  • I always imagined travelling back in time 100 years and trying to explain our tech.

    -“We have personal communicators available at all times, that we can use to instantly communicate with anyone on Earth.”

    -“Wow! But I guess language barriers make it impossible?”

    -'No, actually. A surprising amount of people in the world understand English. Also, we have instant translators in our communicators. I could contact someone in China right now and have a conversation about anything."

    -“Incredible!! What sort of topics do you talk to them about?”

    -“…I don’t. It’s kinda impolite to just start talking to strangers. I mostly talk to old friends from school. And my family.”