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>I'm a native Slavic speaker, and I know a bit of Serbian, and "besplatno" _does_ sound more closer to "s" to me. Yes, it should be an /s/ for sure, but the sp

>I'm a native Slavic speaker, and I know a bit of Serbian, and "besplatno" _does_ sound more closer to "s" to me. Yes, it should be an /s/ for sure, but the spelling doesn't need to represent the /s/ sound in this case. The /s/ sound could be spelled "z" here, and be represented by a rule that says "the voicedness of a consonant cluster is determined by its last consonant". Serbo-Croatian phonetic spelling is like hardcoding stuff that shouldn't be hardcoded. And it focuses on the wrong stuff - why aren't there any accent markings in everyday writing?

cyberax 3y ago
> Serbo-Croatian phonetic spelling is like hardcoding stuff that shouldn't be hardcoded. Why? I don't get it. It's a very nice feature of Slavic writing: it's phonetic (at least in one direction). And it makes it MUCH easier for native speakers to learn compared to more 'hieroglyphic' languages. > And it focuses on the wrong stuff - why aren't there any accent markings in everyday writing? Because the stress pattern can usually be deduced, if you are a native speaker. So accent markers are really needed for exceptions or for non-native speakers.
- acadapter 3y ago
  The accent pattern is not always obvious, such as "grad" (city or hailstone), or some of the feminine nom.sg/gen.pl nouns And if we take another language's historic spelling as an example: Polish "rz" makes stuff easier for speakers of other Slavic languages, instead of spelling out the ż or sz sound verbatim.