07-01-2020, 02:34 PM
I've been thinking in the same direction.
Pronounciation and writing are different things. While I'm sure it's perfectly possible to pronounce "mich" instead of "milch" (as Thomas Coon, and others, argued a while back in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. thread), I find it much less probable for one to write down "mich" for "milch". Because "mich" in itself is a very common word, to be confused with "milch" in writing. But as we can see, "milch" is used as part of composite words (geismilch, mandelmilch etc), where there is no problem of confusion with "mich". So it could be "geismich" - if we succeeded to discover the similar practice (which we haven't yet).
As I argued back in 2015, "bad German", as Koen names it, is a really good option, which explains away almost everything. Imagine you are copying Arabic or Japanese - in other words, a text in a language or (the more so) the writing system that you do not know. You will introduce all sorts of confusion as early as in the very first line. But this idea has its major fault - the aror sheey. You would not combine something you know with something you do not know. No valid scenario for that.
Pronounciation and writing are different things. While I'm sure it's perfectly possible to pronounce "mich" instead of "milch" (as Thomas Coon, and others, argued a while back in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. thread), I find it much less probable for one to write down "mich" for "milch". Because "mich" in itself is a very common word, to be confused with "milch" in writing. But as we can see, "milch" is used as part of composite words (geismilch, mandelmilch etc), where there is no problem of confusion with "mich". So it could be "geismich" - if we succeeded to discover the similar practice (which we haven't yet).
As I argued back in 2015, "bad German", as Koen names it, is a really good option, which explains away almost everything. Imagine you are copying Arabic or Japanese - in other words, a text in a language or (the more so) the writing system that you do not know. You will introduce all sorts of confusion as early as in the very first line. But this idea has its major fault - the aror sheey. You would not combine something you know with something you do not know. No valid scenario for that.