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Pretty much every other language has regular spelling, and many have very regular grammar. English is the exception, being a Frankenstein assemblage of language

• musicale 6y ago
  > Pretty much every other language has regular spelling That may be true for Chinese or Japanese phonetic alphabets (e.g. pinyin, bopomofo, hiragana, katakana, etc.) but literacy demands mastery of characters as well. Although many characters have phonetic elements, it is essentially impossible to know how to write a word correctly in hanzi/kanji without knowing the component characters. Among European languages, French seems to have challenging spelling, and there appear to be spelling bees for foreign learners at least. Dutch also seems to have had a spelling/dictation contest until recently.