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Sadly J must have not been invented yet since G suffered the same fate of overloading that its predecessor C did :(
by Asbostos 11y ago
Sadly J must have not been invented yet since G suffered the same fate of overloading that its predecessor C did :(
- boken 11y agoJ is in fact a much more recent invention than many of us would suppose[0]. It is worth adding, however, that it would not have saved G, except in English; our pronunciation of J, while close to the French and a couple others (with an added /d/ at the front), is quite unique among languages that were written in the Roman alphabet at the time. In any case, English suffers quite a few more more overloaded consonants that C and G. Most occurrences of /z/ (a frequent sound in English) are marked with an S (codes), and a great many /t/ sounds are written D (typed). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J#History