• andscape@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling…

    Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it’s trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.

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      1 year ago

      As an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies…

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        1 year ago

        As a Hungarian, me too. We spell everything exactly as we write it.

        Edit: the reply is right, of course we pronounce everything as we write it.