c

the history of the letter c

00:00 - intro
01:49 - chapter one: enter gaml
04:57 - chapter two: the grand switcheroo
10:19 - chapter three: voicelessness
14:59 - chapter four: Appius and Ruga
19:56 - chapter five: palatalization

[ILikedGooglePlus]

I had a nightmare last night where I made a conlang of "Simplified English" and removed the letter "C" so Jan Misali showed up at the foot of my bed and recited this video at me

[schmourt]

As a Courtney with a sister named Cierra and another named Cheyenne I can pretty securely say I like and understand the versatility of C.

[dieselguitar]

xQc really named himself after the three English letters closest to being redundant.

[carsonianthegreat]

The fact that a blind man had so much influence on our writing system is hilarious, absurd, and awesome.

[grugspro]

the next letter episode should be about "r" so we could have a trill-ogy

[GoHugACactus]

Judging by your calm voice, I’m surprised you didn’t ask me to try squarespace

[loweffortproductions]

Not gonna lie, I thought this was going to be a 30-minute shitpost consisting of a single C note.

[suomeaboo]

I love Xhosa's repurposing of c, q, and x for its 3 primary click consonants - /ǀ/, /ǃ/, and /ǁ/. They have other click consonants too, but they all fall under these 3 primary groups.

[petermarsella]

We're ignoring the key argument:

We can't call it the YMCA anymore, and that song by the Village People is now obsolete.

[soopFPS]

your use of dark mode for your complicated visuals is much appreciated by my drunk, night owl eyes.

[blunderbus]

"But that's Z", the thrilling sequel to "So that's Y"

[eos_aurora]

As someone who is only mildly interested in studying language, this series does often devolve into word salad but I love it

[korkari]

When i don't know what to answer in a multiple choice questions, C is the way to go. C is my comfort letter

[yeahuh]

people: lets remove all Cs!

programmers: *starts sweating*

[azaan.]

man pulled off 1.3 million views with just a “c” as his thumbnail and the title, and managed to get the vid to be of almost half an hour. legend

[DDub]

Also, the sound “kyuh” is predominantly represented with the letters “cu”.

Cumulative, accuse, cure, cute, cube, etc.

Sure you could replace it with “Ky” but it would give words like “Kyumulative”, which may also seem like it’s saying “Chi-yumulative” or “chi-umalative”.

If we’re doing purely phonetic spelling, you get Kyoomuhluhtihv. Which looks like a Russian town name.

[TheGeopigMan]

The real play is to redefine "c" to represent the "ch" sound

[guaposneeze]

Conlang review: C has an unusually limited orthography compared to most conlangs, which makes it relatively easy for new conlang enthusiasts to learn. The alphabet is as follows: "c, C." The phonemic inventory is more diverse, consisting of "s, ch, sh, and k, " depending on context.

[ketzelkomi]

I thought this was gonna be a meme, not a whole backstory of the letter c 😭

[lyvindy]

We probably need part 3, covering X which sounds like either 'ks' or 'z'

Edit: Nevermind, maybe the letter J would be a better choice because it's pronounced so differently in other languages (Somehow the letter sounds like a Y in languages like German and Swedish and also sounds somewhat like H in Spanish)