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That's basically what the Academie Francaise have been doing all along for French and why we have words like "courriel" instead of email in the dictionary despi
by BiteCode_dev 4y ago
That's basically what the Academie Francaise have been doing all along for French and why we have words like "courriel" instead of email in the dictionary despite the fact most people never use them.
- oblio 4y agoA bit of consistency is good, I find, but not actually in actual words. The real consistency you should aim for is pronunciation. Especially for loanwords. Yes, the first time you encounter "CD" spelled out in your native language, it's jarring, but over time the benefits of this add up. Both English and French fail miserably at pronunciation consistency. See this for English: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html If you aim to make your language as phonetic as possible, suddenly acquiring the language is much easier. Still very hard, but a degree of difficulty easier.