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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What are you talking about? Is this a fucking ai bot because this comment makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Lol. Kids spend months studying phonics in grade school because brit english resorts to multiple vowel combinations to express different vowels. https://www.englishradar.com/english-pronunciation/english-vowel-sounds/

Consonants are even worse, in many cases there is no way to know how to pronounce a word just by its letters, you have to know its pronunciation already. In general there are many rules and tons of exceptions. GH sometimes is pronounced F, while S is sometimes pronounced SH. Why? When? No real guidelines there.

Some of these rules have been simplified in american english, so for instance colour became color. That's a good thing because the only real argument against it is preserving etymological roots, which nobody gives a fuck about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Huffing 30kgs of american exeptionalism per day ends up damaging about 90% of neurons by age 25.

Poor guy. 😥