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It's not just the English alphabet, but all the languages that use a Latin alphabet. I think that reusing two symbols representing a specific vowel for two diff
by mrighele 1y ago
It's not just the English alphabet, but all the languages that use a Latin alphabet. I think that reusing two symbols representing a specific vowel for two different vowels was a poor choice.
(I guess that when it was made, more than one hundred years ago, it didn't seem that bad)
- ozgung 1y agoThey are two different vowels. There are 8 vowels in Turkish. All letters correspond to a different phonetic sound in the language. So you can read it as it is written. Iı sounds like e in ‘the’, and ‘i’ sounds like ‘ee’ in deep. They are different sounds, different vovels hence conveniently different letters. Difference changes all the meaning. For instance “sınır” means boundary and “sinir” means nerve. I think it is simple and brilliant design for Turkish. I respect the design choices of all the other languages but this is what works best for our own language. You can simply accept that it is a different (modified latin) alphabet for a different language.
- tremon 1y agoIt's not really a worse choice than reusing the same symbol to represent multiple vowels. The preceding sentence has three different vowel sounds associated with the letter e, for example (four if you include the silent -e like in choice).