forehanddev

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   by forehanddev 5y ago

   This particular problem, of matching misspelled immigrant surnames was the reason for development of phonetic matching algorithms. See https://stevemorse.org/phonetics/bmpm2.htm
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   by forehanddev 5y ago

   Western slavic languages still use a version of the 'Close unrounded central vowel' implicitly in pronounciation, even though it is not represented in writing. An example of this would be words in Romanian (which has a character r
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   by forehanddev 5y ago

   > I'm not sure whether Srp is similar. The Serbian-language word for the Serbian language itself is Srpski (српски), but srp is also Slavic for “sickle”... Native speaker here, these are in fact two different words, since the change
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   by forehanddev 5y ago

   Link to a 99pi podcast episode about this secret mall apartmen in case anyone is interested in the story. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/