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For real though. Tough to get through. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Apparently this reminder is needed.

It is a meme.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And you can spell through as thru as well.

No you can't. Not in the same way. "Thru" is an informal word, similar to writing "gud 2 c u".

How about you at least try something that's not blatantly inequivalent. If I Google "thru", what can I expect to find? If I run both through a dictionary, what can I expect to find? If I poll the general public on each, which one would be accepted as a proper spelling? What would I have to do to both "thru" and "hiccup" be treated as equals here?

That doesn't change the original spelling, or the fact that they're pronounced the same

I said nothing about an original spelling. But if you're calling it the original spelling, you're kinda just conceding that "Hiccough" is the original and "hiccup" is the current.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thru is informal, today. Hiccup was informal years ago. Language progresses.