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I rarely doubt my German spelling (a language I haven't used much in over 10 years) but with English it happens several times a day. The fact that "spelling be
by bjoli 6y ago
I rarely doubt my German spelling (a language I haven't used much in over 10 years) but with English it happens several times a day.
The fact that "spelling bees" are even a thing is proof that something is wrong, at least if you are using an alphabet.
German is a lot better than my mother tongue (what kind of spelling is that? Tounge? Tung??) Swedish, which, while awful, is still better than English.
I would guess that the best in class would be Italian. I took an Italian spelling test (listen and write) and I got 95% correct without knowing any Italian.
Edit: and even though I read and write englush several hour a day, my spelling is still awful. I wrote a small elisp script to find out my most corrected words in flyspell. The list just grew in every direction until I gave up.
- tigershark 6y agoPerfectly agree with Italian. Once you know the few rules you can pronounce every word that you read, unlike English. Spanish would have also been a good example if not for the differences between all the nations that use Spanish, with the most egregious probably being Argentinian Spanish that pronounce ll sh or something like that..