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208 points mohi-kalantari | 5 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.892s | source
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xnx ◴[08 Dec 25 17:09 UTC] No.46194816[source]▶
No fix yet for Samsung. Being reliant on the hardware manufacturer (or network operator?) for OS updates is the crazy world we live in.
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ChocolateGod ◴[08 Dec 25 17:21 UTC] No.46194950[source]▶
I hoped with a move to Fuschia, Google would attempt to fix this, but unfortunately Fuschia on mobile is dead.
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shwaj ◴[08 Dec 25 17:59 UTC] No.46195471[source]▶
It’s “Fuchsia” with a “chs” not a “sch”. Where do you get your information that it’s dead?
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jcranmer ◴[08 Dec 25 18:15 UTC] No.46195691[source]▶
As Randall Munroe pointed out in https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/, almost nobody knows how to spell "fuchsia" correctly. I only remember it by the mnemonic of it's fuck, but with an s.
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crazygringo ◴[08 Dec 25 18:23 UTC] No.46195773[source]▶
I vote to just change the spelling to what almost everyone already thinks it is anyways.

It'll still be just as weird. But "chs" is just nonsensical. The idea that it would sound like "sh" is baffling. I mean, I know this is English spelling which is not known for its regularity, but this is just too much.

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pwdisswordfishy ◴[08 Dec 25 18:44 UTC] No.46196037{5}[source]▶
It comes from the surname of a German botanist. Which just happens to mean "fox". Never had problems with it.

It would probably help if you pronounced it right, with a /ks/.

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1. umanwizard ◴[08 Dec 25 18:53 UTC] No.46196150[source]▶
The beginning of the English word "fuchsia" is not pronounced like the German word Fuchs, so indeed the spelling does not match the pronunciation. This is independent of the fact that it comes from that word. Plenty of things in English (and, in fact, loanwords in every language) sound different from the words they're derived from; that doesn't mean trying to imitate the source language is the "right" pronunciation. If you pronounce fuchsia like "fuksia" nobody will understand you.
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2. darkwater ◴[08 Dec 25 21:07 UTC] No.46197656[source]▶
> If you pronounce fuchsia like "fuksia" nobody will understand you.

TIL and yet another case of "English is fucking weird".

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3. debo_ ◴[08 Dec 25 21:46 UTC] No.46198090[source]▶
Fuching weird, even.
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5. darkwater ◴[09 Dec 25 11:14 UTC] No.46203601{3}[source]▶
:) Yeah, probably in this case English is doing the right thing, pronunciation wise. Anyway, checking in Google Translate the pronunciation it plays "fuksia", while Wikipedia has the right version.