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I am pretty sure most of the world can figure out how to ponounce yggdrasil much easier than how to pronounce infrastructure or litterature in english. https:/

• NemoNobody 2y ago
  Not once they have familiarity with the language at all. One of your examples has a word within a word, so it's like half pronounced if you can say "structure" which I think difficult to mispronounce.
  • poincaredisk 2y ago
    Every kid learning English in my country will pronounce "structure" incorrectly at first, because it's similar to a word (with the same meaning) in my native language, and the correct English pronunciation of -ture doesn't make sense. I've looked up Yggdrassil pronunciation and... it's not surprising and I guessed the pronunciation correctly already?
    • rustcleaner 2y ago
      >Yggdrassil Yggdrasil
  • Tor3 2y ago
    I've had English as my second language for many decades, most of what I do every day is in English, nearly 100% of what I read is in English, and most of what I watch or listen to is in English. And I have to speak English with all of my customers. English is, in that sense, absolutely as easy as my native language. I dream in English. Still: "Structure" and "literature" are hard to pronounce - or at least I'm sure I don't pronounce those words the way natives do. And that goes for a ton of words where the letters aren't either pronounced, or, alternatively, pronounced differently. But people with English as a second language don't have much problems pronouncing non-English words, like the Old Norse word in question. English is the weird one here, not the other way around.