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I'm told that Italian, for example, has such a regularity that pretty much every word is spelled phonetically, so guessing the spelling always works.
by mattgibson 12y ago
I'm told that Italian, for example, has such a regularity that pretty much every word is spelled phonetically, so guessing the spelling always works.
- CapitalistCartr 12y agoAll of the Romance languages are well structured, in stark contrast to English. There is no "GHOTI = FISH" nonsense in them.
- scrollaway 12y agoSpoken ambiguity and written ambiguity are two very different things and English should not be judged on the merits of the British-English accent. (You speak of the structure of Romance languages...)
- adambard 12y agoIn my limited experience, this is mostly true of Spanish, and nearly for Polish as well (although the latter has a few sneaky digraphs and some regular exceptions). I'm also told that this is true of German.
- gurkendoktor 12y ago> I'm also told that this is true of German. Not quite. We have a bunch of French loanwords that are confusing to spell, some sounds that blend into each other (eu/äu, e/ä, ch/g), we pronounce a 'd' like a 't' at the ent of a wort (so Germans are perpetually confused if it's spelled Standard or Standart), and our markers for whether a vowel is long or short are pretty inconsistent.