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My native language is french and learned english at a young age. Saying that french spelling is nowhere near as bad as English is insane to me.
by makaren 4y ago
My native language is french and learned english at a young age. Saying that french spelling is nowhere near as bad as English is insane to me.
- ickoonite 4y agoFrench is hard to encode but easy to decode. ai, aix, é, aient are all (more or less?) the same, so reading is fine, but working out which to write can be tough. French has bigger problems though. That keyboard for a start.
- mytailorisrich 4y ago'ai' in Northern French is pronounced like è (and so tends to be considered the standard pronunciation). Southerners tend to pronounce everything like é. Aix is also the name of several towns, in which case the 'x' is not silent.