• voracitude@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    people who speak a language with a decent spelling system

    So not the fuckin’ French then 🧐 😂🤣😂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇬🇧 🫖🎩 laughs in Her Majesty’s English

    (On a related note, does anyone else have this much fun lampooning British nationalism?)

    Edit: Only Parisians are downvoting this, glory to Britannia

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      5 days ago

      I don’t speak French but isn’t pronunciation quite straightforward while not intuitive? There are letters that are always silent at the end and vowels go wild but once you know which is which, you’re not confused that <oi> is /wa/ anymore since it’s consistent. No <gh> that can be anything

      • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Same in English. You can intuit which words follow Latin rules, which words follow Greek rules, and which words follow Germanic rules. Once you have a feel for it, spelling starts to feel natural for some fucking reason