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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (20 children)

No, instead you have to learn to read and spell in a system that often sounds quite different to what is written. I want to read a book that's never been read. I want to live a life alive at a live show. Anything ending in ~ough which has something like 6 or 8 different sounds. I'm a native speaker trying to work with my wife on English (we speak Japanese at home). It's insane for any reading/spelling.

[–] RampantParanoia2365 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, unlike French where 2/3 of each word is silent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think liason is the harder part about trying to transcribe someone's spoken words as a new learner without a good grasp on vocabulary.

At least with French, a lot of those silent letters are a lot more predictable than English. English has French borrowings (from two different time periods), Latin borrowings (some of which were borrowed via Norman or Old French first), Greek, Germanic, etc. and we did various levels of preserving the native spelling. This is neat for etymology and maybe figuring out a word one doesn't know, but kinda sucks for spelling. A lot of words from Normal and Old French are now spelled differently in modern Parisian, but the more recent loans are closer. It's a hot mess.

[–] agissilver 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

liason

Liaison, but also did you mean to use that word there or was it a weird autocorrect?

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