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arrow-up19arrow-down1imageThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squarecazssiew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoIn french we have “concours d’orthographe”. Pronunciation is pretty consistent, but we add a dozen letters for every sound we utter, so spelling’s still a mess.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoI’ve seen enough French spelling to get it, though, and I don’t really speak French. English spelling is still often hard as a native speaker. You guys can have second place, our system is the most ass “bar none”.
minus-squarepseudo@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoOur system needs a deep reform; yours needs to burn to the ground and fully rebuild.
minus-squareMonkeyBusiness@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoUh oh, the internet is starting the Napoleonic Wars 2: Electric Waterloo.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoOkay English is weird but y’all got nothing on Japanese. I mean what the hell is this?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoMultiple systems of writing at once is terrible in a different way, yes. I hear they still have page rendering issues in 2025.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI was more talking about the number of readings for one character but yeah that too.
In french we have “concours d’orthographe”. Pronunciation is pretty consistent, but we add a dozen letters for every sound we utter, so spelling’s still a mess.
I’ve seen enough French spelling to get it, though, and I don’t really speak French. English spelling is still often hard as a native speaker.
You guys can have second place, our system is the most ass “bar none”.
Our system needs a deep reform; yours needs to burn to the ground and fully rebuild.
Uh oh, the internet is starting the Napoleonic Wars 2: Electric Waterloo.
Okay English is weird but y’all got nothing on Japanese. I mean what the hell is this?
Multiple systems of writing at once is terrible in a different way, yes. I hear they still have page rendering issues in 2025.
I was more talking about the number of readings for one character but yeah that too.