I’ve been wondering about this since I joined lol.
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
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
Wait, is that “p oh b” or “p ahh b”?
For me, “p oh b”
POB enjoyer over here
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!
I’ve been saying “Paw bee” in my head
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.
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”.
When I say it out loud it comes out more like Pob, but that’s probably just my accent doing it’s thing.
