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In German e is a, and i is e. It really is striking.

• lottin 6y ago
  It isn't striking for speakers of German nor for speakers of Romance languages. These are the vowels that these letters originally stood for in the Latin alphabet, and they still do in many languages. But English obviously isn't one of them.
  • User23 6y ago
    I’m a native speaker of both English and German and it was striking to me when I was learning to write.
    • lottin 6y ago
      It struck you that /e/ and /ɛ/ were spelled with an "e"?