Mute and moot

[classical_hero]

How do people even mix up the pronunciations? Now imagine mixing up cute and coot.

I could be just pure laziness, which is certainly on my part.

 

[warpus]

This whole thread is based on the premise that some people are stupid enough to say "That's a mute point" as opposed to "That's a moot point"

But they aren't doing this because they are mixing up the words or the pronunciation. They just don't know what they're saying.

 

[Takhisis]

You're spot on with your second line, warpus, but the first one… it's about the pronunciation of the word. VRWCAgent, for example, pronounces 'pin' and 'pen' exactly the same and knows the difference between the two words.

 

[Kyriakos]

Just because the thread has a moot point doesn't mean it should be muted

 

[Borachio]

Just to muddy the waters a bit: "moot" has two separate meanings. And I always pick the wrong one.

 

[Takhisis]

It can also mean a meeting, yes.

 

[Borachio]

Well, that's three. But a little archaic, that one.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

The only reason someone says mute point is because they are an ignoramus, QED.

Mistakenly thinking that the expression is "mute point" does not feature in the top 1000 displays of human stupidity that I have witnessed in my 39 years.

 

[Takhisis]

Ignorance isn't the same as stupidity, even though they have a tendency to go hand in hand.

 

[warpus]

You're spot on with your second line, warpus, but the first one… it's about the pronunciation of the word. VRWCAgent, for example, pronounces 'pin' and 'pen' exactly the same and knows the difference between the two words.

In New Zealand pen is pronounced "peen". When you want to buy a pen there you might just get a pan.

I would love to hear VRWC's pronunciation of those two words though. As well as anybody who claims to pronounce moot and mute the same way.

 

[bhsup]

Funny thing is, I didn't know pronouncing them the same was even weird until Bill3000 told me about it. It's apparently called a merge. Notice on the map in the link below that I am decently close to the northern edge of the merge zone . I live just east of the Missouri-Kansas border roughly halfway up the border on the Missouri side. 60 miles south of KC if that helps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin-pen_merger#Pin.E2.80.93pen_merger

@Warpus: You know Big Ben over in the UK? Well, say Ben, but with a p. That's pen and pin for me.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Ignorance isn't the same as stupidity, even though they have a tendency to go hand in hand.

That's moot in this case. The term ignoramus implies a degree of ignorance that has morphed into stupidity.

 

[warpus]

That's very bizarre VRWC! TIL