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In English, what if C always made a hard sound and K didn't exist?
- Thread starter IhateletterK
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How does this relate?
No, C is always hard K doesn't exist
That's some serious dedikation
Bro! This whole point of this post is "What if C was always hard and K didn't exist"
And what if we just had C only be hard and gotten rid of K?
*Cendall Clinic
Kendall klinik*
No!
call me the letter c in IhateletterK's alternate reality, because i always go hard
C should probably see a doctor
C is now going to take revenge on all the letters that copied its sound (K, Q, X)
C is actually the copier of K in this case. In the Greek alphabet, the sound you describe as "hard C" was originally represented by Kappa (K), and C itself originates more closely to gamma (Γ) which you can see how it looks like half a C, which was originally used to represent the /g/ sound.
The next step forward would be into the Etruscan alphabet, where a more C-like symbol for gamma would be used for both the /k/ and /g/ sounds.
The Roman/Latin alphabet would be derived from the Etruscan alphabet and inherited this double meaning of C. It wasn't until Spurius Carvilius Ruga came along to invent the letter G by adding a tail onto the C to differentiate /g/ and /k/.
So to answer your thread's question, if K never existed and C always made the /k/ sound instead, then the letter G probably wouldn't look like a C with a tail because it wouldn't have been based on C, and there would probably just be another letter that would end up being used for the same purpose as the original Latin C was in the place of K and G to represent the /g/ sound, and alt-universe C (in the role of Kappa) and neo-G (in the role of gamma) might have been merged together in the Etruscan alphabet to become neo-C in the end anyway, so alt-C would be the equivalent to K and your name would be IhateletterC and you would be praising neo-C as superior to alt-C in this alternate reality. Truly, there is no end to this vicious cycle.
Sources: https://ultrasaurus.com/2003/08/the-history-of-the-letter-c/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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There is this video which explains that K actually copied C
This video fully supports my points.
Kappa was the original character to represent the /k/ or "hard C" sound.
Gamma was the original character to represent /g/.
C is the result of taking these original characters and splicing them together in a fusion that came afterwards in this unholy genealogy.
You can't say that K copied C's sound when this clearly shows that K came first and C is just a cheap copy.
And look at this other guy that understnads, K is the cheap copy?
I'm not sure what you're reading. The comment is saying they hated C for freeloading by taking up multiple sounds, and realized that they actually hate the "uncredited original K sounds", admitting that K is the original sound and that its credit is being taken away by people like you attributing /k/ to "hard C".
Just because this comment is being negative to the letter K doesn't mean it's agreeing that K is the copy, they just don't like its sound.
He is saying that, C is the letter that originally made the hard sound and K is the fraud here! What does this mean to you? Read!