• taaz@biglemmowski.win
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    11 months ago

    Most slavic languages probably don’t have spelling contests - what you say has mostly exact textual representation, except some letters that can sound alike when spoken.

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      11 months ago

      The more I learn about other languages the more I realize that most languages do that. English probably also did that before it became mixed with french

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        11 months ago

        English spelling wasn’t even remotely standardized at that time. So phonetic was pretty much all there was

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      Very interesting! I vaguely recall having once seen an infographic explaining how to read cryllic in very little time ages ago, and if it’s that rigid with pronunciations and such I can see it being that easy to pick up.

      As opposed to English, where you might cough and hiccough while the borough’s favorite dough-maker ploughs through the field.