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That's too bad. Cyrillic, especially in the context of Russian, has always seemed compact and almost cute to me. The alphabet is very regular; it's easy even f
by gragas 10y ago
That's too bad. Cyrillic, especially in the context of Russian, has always seemed compact and almost cute to me.
The alphabet is very regular; it's easy even for non-fluent speakers to perfectly guess the spellings of words.
- davidgay 10y agoPhonetic spelling is not a property of alphabets, eg, both German and Turkish (appropriately) are phonetically spelled.
- zakk 10y agoI don't know about Turkish, but German is not phonetically spelled. Of course it is better than the mess English is, but there are still many exceptions, silent letters, dypthongs, etc. For an almost phonetic language try Italian, for a completely phonetic one try Serbian with the Cyrillic script.
- emanreus 10y agoInterestingly enough English was phonemic during the Middle English stage (11th - 15th century) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography
- bobthepanda 10y agoLatin script doesn't prevent this. Depending on how it's Latinized, it could be just as easy: if you're familiar with how Latin letters are pronounced in Spanish, it's pretty easy to guess the spelling of unknown Spanish words.
- pseingatl 10y agoKe ba.
- BuuQu9hu 10y agoLojban uses the Latin alphabet and is phonetic up to the "audiovisual isomorphism," which is exactly what it says on the tin.
- gspetr 10y ago> Russian, has always seemed compact Russian here, I can assure you it decidedly is anything but compact. It frequently annoys me how verbose some things in it are compared to English. Brevity is the soul of wit.
- pandaman 10y agoHe or she probably means the script, not the terseness of Russian. If you look at English and Russian text you will notice that Russian has longer streaks of letters of the same height/depth compared to English.
- gragas 10y agoThat is indeed what I meant.
- jerry40 10y agoBrevity is the soul of wit. Краткость - сестра таланта. --------- 6:3!