stardustpathsofglory comments on Languages

[–] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Slavic languages: nothing is silent. We write as we speak. For this we will also write your name as we think it should be written.

Example: Hju Džekman

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 14 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

Fun fact, Poles in their infinite wisdom switched from using Cyrillic alphabet which naturally maps to Polish sounds https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/polishcyrillic.htm

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

Huh. NATOpedia tells me that the Latin has always been the predominant script for Polish. But it only traces this back to the 13^th^ century or maybe the 10^th^, coinciding with the Christianization of Poland. Supposedly it was only a spoken previously, which sounds to me like historical revisionism to erase a Cyrillic predecessor. But if Cryllic only dates back to the 10^th^ century… 🤷

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 4 points 1 month ago

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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"Write as we speak"

The biggest lie of the russian language.

In theory yes, but pronounciation of о depends on if it has stress or not and stress of the word you have to just know.

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