• rotkehle @feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    I seriously never got the concept of a spelling bee competition until I learned English.

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      I just learnt about the existence of “spelling bee competitions” through this post. But in English it makes sense that this exists.

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      i still don’t get it, and i don’t get why people are so up in arms about english in general, feels like people just enjoy having an arbitrary thing to all hate together.

      the only really unique thing about english is just how many places were forced to speak it, but it’s not that much more than french…

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        in many languages theres clear rules how to pronounce vowels, consonants and combination of such. in english there’s no rules at all. sure there will be always exceptions and oddballs to the rules in other languages but usually you see a word and just by looking at it you know how to pronounce it, but thats not the case in english. not hating on english, its super simple and straight forward in a lot of aspects but the pronunciation clusterfuck is at a stark contrast to being otherwise one of the easiest languages to learn.

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        It’s jarring if you don’t come from a language with fucked spelling however…