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> if someone teaches you a word or a name, you can simply hear how it's spelled. Is it like Spanish where you can also know how a word is pronounced by how it'
by jolmg 7y ago
> if someone teaches you a word or a name, you can simply hear how it's spelled.
Is it like Spanish where you can also know how a word is pronounced by how it's written?
- skrebbel 7y agoEven better, because Spanish has a few letters that change pronunciation depending on context, eg the g in guerra vs Girona.
- bernawil 7y agodoesn't depend on any "context" in that example. Both written and spoken follow strict rules.
- jolmg 7y agoThe context they mean is probably the adjacent "u", which is true and is involved in the strict rules you speak of. There is ambiguity with "x", though. I don't know if there are strict rules surrounding it. I know of 3 different sounds for it: * Like Spanish "j", English "h" as in México, Xavier, Oaxaca * Like Spanish "ch", English "sh" as in Xoloitzcuintle, Xela * Like English "x" as in excepción, exacto
- skrebbel 7y agoYeah that was badly worded. I meant context the way parsers/lexers use the term, not the common language speaker's definition of "the meaning of the surrounding words". I meant adjacent letters.