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> English phonetics are no worse than any other language- when the author writes phonetics he means spelling I doubt that. I understand Italian at an A2/B1 lev
by mariusor 5y ago
> English phonetics are no worse than any other language- when the author writes phonetics he means spelling
I doubt that. I understand Italian at an A2/B1 level, however if I see a sentence or a name in Italian I will pronounce it correctly in 95% of the times even if I never saw it, or heard it before. That's the power of a phonetic language which Italian is for the most part.
- wodenokoto 5y agoThat’s due to a reasonable spelling. Phonetics are the sounds of a language. All spoken languages are phonetic. > Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetics
- mariusor 5y agoOK, I guess it's an idiom that differs between romance languages and English. In Italian and my mother tongue a phonetic language is one where one letter corresponds to one sound (or at least that's how my teachers referred to it in school). In English, the corresponding dictionary definition seems to be: a language with a "phonemic orthographic system". TIL.