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5 months agonever use my main for anything
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never use my main for anything
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The ‘p’ is only silent in English because English doesn’t allow syllables to start with ‘pt’. It was perfectly fine to do so in ancient Greek, where both the ‘p’ and the ‘t’ would be pronounced, but when English borrowed the ‘pt’-initial words, the ‘p’ gets deleted to make the word pronounceable.
But, it’s perfectly fine in English for one syllable to end with ‘p’ and the next to start with ‘t’, so English speakers have no problem saying ‘cop-ter’.
Same with, for example, ‘tsunami’ vs. ‘Mit-subishi’ (which in Japanese is actually syllabified ‘mi-tsu-bi-shi’).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The movie debuted at the height of turtlemania in 1990 and became the highest grossing independent film ever at the time. It’s also a genuinely good movie.