Blaze (he/him) to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 6 months agoThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square107arrow-up1501
arrow-up1501imageThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeBlaze (he/him) to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square107
minus-square@Hawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•6 months ago English is descriptive, not proscriptive. Surely there are no languages that base their rules on forbidding certain pronunciations? (Proscriptive means forbidding; I assume you meant prescriptive)
minus-squarethemeatbridgelinkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoIndeed, you’re correct. Although the French do have the DGLFLF.
minus-square@Gurfaild@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoHiatus avoidance in Classical Latin poetry is the closest thing to a rule I can think of
Surely there are no languages that base their rules on forbidding certain pronunciations?
(Proscriptive means forbidding; I assume you meant prescriptive)
Indeed, you’re correct. Although the French do have the DGLFLF.
Hiatus avoidance in Classical Latin poetry is the closest thing to a rule I can think of