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I'm actually more influenced by Swedish spelling, where I saw how nice things could be. Separating ij and ei (which were long i and ai in protogermanic) seems p
by legulere 11y ago
I'm actually more influenced by Swedish spelling, where I saw how nice things could be. Separating ij and ei (which were long i and ai in protogermanic) seems pretty cool to me as it makes it more obvious for other germanic languages what the corresponding word is (drijven seems more similar to drive than to treiben), however I guess it's really hard for people to remember which of the two is the correct one for each word when they're pronounced the same.
- gpvos 11y agoI don't know enough about Swedish spelling, but there seem to be quite some irregularities such as the g sometimes being pronounced as j, and o sometimes as u, but there is probably some rule to those. As you show, Dutch has its share of weirdness too, of course.