I’ve been wondering about this since I joined lol.
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 @[email protected] mentioned, but I think it makes it all the better :3
Wait, is that “p oh b” or “p ahh b”?
For me, “p oh b”
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!
pawb is welsh for “everybody” and it’s pronounced /pau̯b/
why, what did you think pawb meant?
I thought it meant “paw” in the UwU dialect of English?
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
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”.
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’.
Same here.
POB enjoyer over here
I’ve been saying “Paw bee” in my head
