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created by Porschii_ on 02/02/2025 at 14:03 UTC
83 upvotes, 6 top-level comments (showing 6)
Comment by son_of_menoetius at 02/02/2025 at 14:07 UTC
35 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Americans after finding out that changing "colour" to "color" does NOT make it any more phonetically correct
Comment by KenamiAkutsui99 at 02/02/2025 at 15:03 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Milk ƿið þe geust
Comment by bobbymoonshine at 02/02/2025 at 22:05 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
These are some pretty orthographically transparent vowels you’ve got there
Sure would be a shame if someone were to…*shift them*
Comment by Porschii_ at 02/02/2025 at 14:43 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Extra: English: Cluttered Mess From being Germanic language with huge Romance and Celt influences
Fr*nch: Same but swap the place of "Romance" and "Germanic" in the sentences above.
Comment by Lubinski64 at 02/02/2025 at 23:52 UTC
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I've always felt the printing press argument was just a lazy excuse. Polish printing houses of the late 15th and early 16th century had no trouble creating as many special fonts and diacritics as they wanted. Need ś, ź, ń or ć? No problem. Vowel length you say? We can make that happen. And what do those accent marks do? Idk, add them as well. What's that, clients from Kyiv need Cyrillic prints? We got you covered.
Meanwhile the English proceeded to make their orthography worse and then said it's all the Germans' fault.
Comment by President_Abra at 03/02/2025 at 07:16 UTC
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O linguist breþren of mine, hast þou never heard of þe Great Vowel Shift?
