I’ve been wondering about this since I joined lol.

  • Foxfire@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Since it’s just a silly corruption of paw / paws I personally always pronounce the ‘b’ sound in my head so it’s distinct.

    Pawbs!

  • Crashdoom@pawb.socialM
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    1 year ago

    Personally, I pronounce it “POB” because W’s are hard :p

    Though, I totally didn’t realize when I chose the domain that Pawb also meant “everybody” in Welch as @match@pawb.social mentioned, but I think it makes it all the better :3

  • Match!!@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    pawb is welsh for “everybody” and it’s pronounced /pau̯b/

    why, what did you think pawb meant?

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        1 year ago

        Could be both. Lots of languages have loan words, and they sometimes drift a long ways from the original meaning

        Now I’m wondering if it’s a legit language, I hyperfocused on language theory a while back for a speech synthesis project. There’s hard, testable requirements, and a surprising amount of math to it too.

        Like pig Latin is a code, not a language, but crows, dolphins, and orcas have full symbolic languages and regional dialects that you can plot on a language tree

        UwU has grammar (maybe stricter than English even, anti patterns are language rules too)

        Phonemes that make up the various sounds - check. They have a consistent replacement of certain English ones too, as well as shortening of certain words. Which is pretty consistent for a dialect

        The only other thing that comes to mind, probably because it’s so wild to me, is that human language has a consistent speed of information transmission across languages. Languages like Spanish and Japanese have more phonemes per unit of information, and so they’re spoken faster. English, being three languages in a trenchcoat, has more sounds and way more words, so you get the same meaning across with a slower transmission speed by having higher information density.

        There’s a standard test you can do, it’d be pretty great if someone published a paper on it

  • Popsip@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Was wondering the same thing. Mostly I’ve been pronouncing it with the b like how I would with the word ‘knob’ but occasionally I find myself saying it like ‘paw bee’.

  • Sloan the Serval@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    The “b” isn’t silent. “pawb” means “everybody” in welsh but in this context it’s just “paw” in UwU. You could also consider it a shortening of “paw bean”, which is a cute way of saying “paw pad”.