• PelicanenEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    that’s what English would look like if we fixed the fucking spelling. They look at French’s oodles of rules that all matter

    Can’t we just use the Finnish rule of “each letter is only pronounced one way ever” and solve all the headaches?

    • mindbleach@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      If we ditch latin for IPA, maybe.

      Maybe.

      The more likely outcome is that some words would adopt those revised pronunciations, but most wouldn’t, fracturing the rules by creating arbitrary exceptions. This has of course happened over and over and over. That is the shape of the hole we are in.