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I'm surprised Dutch ranks so opaque for reading. Opaqueness in writing, I could understand - as 't kofschip and its ruder cousin evidence, writing Dutch has alw
by ivanbakel 3y ago
I'm surprised Dutch ranks so opaque for reading. Opaqueness in writing, I could understand - as 't kofschip and its ruder cousin evidence, writing Dutch has always been a problem of having more graphemes than morphemes.
But reading? There are constant and consistent spelling reforms of Dutch, which partially aim to make it easier to read. My experience of it is that it's overwhelmingly regular (minus your odd melk surprise.) And apparently despite this, literature going back to 1994 empirically finds Dutch opaque for reading.
- contravariant 3y agoI mean if it's just single letter to phoneme then I can understand, most vowels are pronounced differently depending on if they are stressed or not, there is quite a long lists of vowels that use two letters and then there are some consonants that change sound in the presence of other consonants. And then there's the ij, which despite what other languages think is really just one letter.
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