Re:Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome im...
by bruce343434 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:33AM
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Dutch people are notorious for having issues with the th sound, which does not occur in the Dutch language and requires practice. They also don't "soften" leading consonants, they "harden" trailing consonants like zand pronounced zant. Thus I don't see why your explanation would be likely.
Source: am Dutch, would never pronounce titter as dither even with a bad accent. More likely the other way around actually.
Re:Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome im...
by genewitch on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @10:38PM
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All of what you said is correct. My father was Dutch, i only know the langauge from etymology but i know what english sounds like spoken by a person with Dutch as a first language.
I might dig out my norse etymology dictionary and a magnifying glass and try to trace it back further.
-- From Etymonline:
Teeter:
1843, "to seesaw," alteration of Middle English titter "move unsteadily," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse titra "to shake, shiver, totter, tremble," from Proto-Germanic *ti-tra- (source also of German zittern "to tremble"). Meaning "move unsteadily, be on the edge of imbalance" is from 1844.
[...]Noun teeter-totter "see-saw" is attested from 1871 (earlier simply teeter, 1855, and titter-totter in same sense is from *1520s*). Totter (n.) "board swing" is recorded from late 14c.;