• s_s@lemmy.one
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    5 months ago

    Using an alphabet designed for Latin has had some dire consequences.

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      5 months ago

      Using a Latin alphabet. Using Germanic pronunciation. Borrowing words from Spanish. Stealing words from French. Changing accent to avoid sounding Gaelic.

      I have always loved the analogy that English isn’t a language, it’s three bilingual children stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat and arguing about bologna.

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        5 months ago

        I have heard it analogized that English is a language that follows other languages into dark alleys to beat them up and steal their words.

    • deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip
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      Well, German has almost as many vowels as English and we’re doing just fine I think. On the other hand, French orthography is similarly fucked up although it’s a direct descendent of Latin and they don’t even have any weird sounds they can’t write concisely. So I think its just a matter of trying.