The pronunciation of something is secondary to its definition. But with a phonetic language, it's easy to fool yourself as well as others of an understanding th

The pronunciation of something is secondary to its definition. But with a phonetic language, it's easy to fool yourself as well as others of an understanding that is not very deep. well, children are introduced to "reading" as in mapping written symbols to phonemes. Yes, there's more to reading than that, as in you can side-step the mapping to phonemes and map straight to "meaning", but nobody is doing that with children. Phonetic languages just make the (indispensable) step of text to sound easier and gives you a head start.