Languages (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 48 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I understand how letter combinations in french are hard to get at first and there are sometimes many ways to write a sound, but once you learn them you will always know how a new word is pronounced. English is such a joke of a language that you never know how a word is pronounced until you hear it or you happen to know its ethymology...

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    So what you gotta do is settle the island with a bunch of Germans, then get conquered some centuries later by the French. Steal all the vocabulary from French - especially the vocabulary of the nobility - but keep the German grammar. Then just for fun when you are about to standardize your spelling with the invention of the printing press import a bunch of Dutch people to do your spelling for you

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Don’t forget getting converted by St. Augustine bringing Latin and Greek words!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    And who could forget grabbing all available loanwords from The Colonies

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    How do you even read Russian if you don't know its alphabet

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] [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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Without reason, sure, but with a gender

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Funny, but that last one counts for Gaelic, not French.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    ils huent = they boo

    only the u is needed

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    As someone learning french, all you gotta do is take an english word, add a bunch of vowels, and Vièoulâh!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Aye whundher why

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I swear the French just pronounce their words based on vibes

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    Spanis? Eglish? ?

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