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This is an absurd view to hold. English accepts an extremely wide range of pronunciations for almost all words, allowing it to be easily used (ironically) as a
by sornaensis 7y ago
This is an absurd view to hold. English accepts an extremely wide range of pronunciations for almost all words, allowing it to be easily used (ironically) as a linuga franca.
Re: 'That's just how it's pronounced' --> In your regional dialect of the language, which can probably still be understood, with >99% certainty, by anyone else in the world who is also a native speaker, and probably by almost anyone who speak English as a second language...
If you want a phonetic English, you'd need an alphabet with about 40 characters in it. And for what gain exactly...?
And suddenly dialects are writing the same word completely differently, because the sounds are different..
- bluGill 7y agoCommunication can only happen when the people involved get the same internal mental model on what a given sequence of sounds/letters mean. To that end dialects need to die. They harm communication. Even when they are close enough to each other for understanding they slow down the speed of communication. I don't care if we need 100 characters in the language, one sound per character would greatly aid English. Enough of this to/too/two nonsense: one pronunciation, one and only one spelling. (if we could reform word definitions to get rid of those issues so much the better)
- FrojoS 7y agoDialects should not die! That would be a shame in my opinion. We should just all speak a „common dialect“. I guess what the speak on US TV (Friends) is the most likely candidate.
- throwaway744678 7y agoAs a simple example, please consider live and live.