DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 个月前How do I pronounce "Kamala"?message-squaremessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1104arrow-down1message-squareHow do I pronounce "Kamala"?DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 个月前message-square117fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-27 个月前It’s 'cause we took the letters from Latin, which actually had 5 vowels, and applied it to a Germanic language which, in my dialect, has 17. We also standardised the spelling in patches hundreds of years ago, and never updated it, but that’s a sort of separate issue.
It’s 'cause we took the letters from Latin, which actually had 5 vowels, and applied it to a Germanic language which, in my dialect, has 17.
We also standardised the spelling in patches hundreds of years ago, and never updated it, but that’s a sort of separate issue.