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@cazssiew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish31•6 months agoIn french we have “concours d’orthographe”. Pronunciation is pretty consistent, but we add a dozen letters for every sound we utter, so spelling’s still a mess.
minus-square@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-26 months agoI’ve seen enough French spelling to get it, though, and I don’t really speak French. English spelling is still often hard as a native speaker. You guys can have second place, our system is the most ass “bar none”.
minus-square@pseudo@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglish11•6 months agoOur system needs a deep reform; yours needs to burn to the ground and fully rebuild.
minus-square@MonkeyBusiness@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish8•6 months agoUh oh, the internet is starting the Napoleonic Wars 2: Electric Waterloo.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink1•4 months agoOkay English is weird but y’all got nothing on Japanese. I mean what the hell is this?
minus-square@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-24 months agoMultiple systems of writing at once is terrible in a different way, yes. I hear they still have page rendering issues in 2025.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink1•4 months agoI was more talking about the number of readings for one character but yeah that too.
In french we have “concours d’orthographe”. Pronunciation is pretty consistent, but we add a dozen letters for every sound we utter, so spelling’s still a mess.
I’ve seen enough French spelling to get it, though, and I don’t really speak French. English spelling is still often hard as a native speaker.
You guys can have second place, our system is the most ass “bar none”.
Our system needs a deep reform; yours needs to burn to the ground and fully rebuild.
Uh oh, the internet is starting the Napoleonic Wars 2: Electric Waterloo.
Okay English is weird but y’all got nothing on Japanese. I mean what the hell is this?
Multiple systems of writing at once is terrible in a different way, yes. I hear they still have page rendering issues in 2025.
I was more talking about the number of readings for one character but yeah that too.