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I don't know what kind it uses, but it's not phonetic, because the graphemes do not represent phonemes, despite your claims. If English was truly phonetic, to
by phoe-krk 4y ago
I don't know what kind it uses, but it's not phonetic, because the graphemes do not represent phonemes, despite your claims.
If English was truly phonetic, to name a few examples again: the pronunciation of "are" would most likely be a prefix of "area", since the graphemes for "are" are present in "area"; "read" and "read" would be read the same, since the graphemes for "read" and "read" are identical; the words "freak", "steak", and "break" would end with the same phonemes, since the graphemes for "eak" suffix are identical... and so on.
- taeric 4y agoIf it was not phonetic, what "idea" would the letter "r" represent? That it can represent different phonetics depending on other rules doesn't change that it represents phonetics.
- nkrisc 4y ago> the graphemes do not represent phonemes, despite your claims. I now suspect you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a phoneme is. What does the symbol “c” represent, if not two different phonemes? The letters in the English script represent sounds. Do you disagree?