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"Pronounce" by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (www.smbc-comics.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

that's what English would look like if we fixed the fucking spelling. They look at French's oodles of rules that all matter

Can't we just use the Finnish rule of "each letter is only pronounced one way ever" and solve all the headaches?

[–] mindbleach 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we ditch latin for IPA, maybe.

Maybe.

The more likely outcome is that some words would adopt those revised pronunciations, but most wouldn't, fracturing the rules by creating arbitrary exceptions. This has of course happened over and over and over. That is the shape of the hole we are in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Supplement Latin with Anglo-Saxon runes. Solved.