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CurrentIndependent42 t1_je6vtcp wrote

Reply to comment by reditusername39479 in English is such an unreasonable language that spelling is a national sport by eldrolamam

This old chestnut. English isn’t particularly unusual in this regard. What’s unusual - though not unique - is having an old orthography that hasn’t been updated or uniformed to reflect modern pronunciation.

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dragonmp93 t1_je7735q wrote

The problem with English is that it has 5 vowels with 13 sounds.

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CurrentIndependent42 t1_je77sgx wrote

That’s one issue. Danish has even more, and other funny phonological stuff going on, though even then has more consistent sound to spelling matching.

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