noname942
noname942 t1_je6w02u wrote
Reply to comment by CarsonOrSanders in English is such an unreasonable language that spelling is a national sport by eldrolamam
I'm speaking for Czech, Slovak and German, (they're not exactly perfect, but when compared to English... one could say they're very consistent and regular), according to wikipedia it's like that in quite a few languages (they're listing only languages with high degree of grapheme-phoneme correspondence, English is still orders of magnitude behind German and Slovak even if they're not in the list though)
Also, according to wikipedia, spelling bee exists in only 3 languages other than English
noname942 t1_je6l8wk wrote
Reply to comment by AC2BHAPPY in English is such an unreasonable language that spelling is a national sport by eldrolamam
no
at least not in most of them
Sounds match to letters almost perfectly so it's just not a problem.
noname942 t1_je6l5j8 wrote
Reply to comment by domotor2 in English is such an unreasonable language that spelling is a national sport by eldrolamam
> I think English spelling is reasonable most of the time
You sure about that? Every word is pronounced and spelled differently, letters don't match sounds 1:1 as they are supposed to, unlike in most other languages
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UK is no longer part of EU
noname942 t1_ja6qnau wrote
Corrupted disk?
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black screen of death
noname942 t1_je6ymwl wrote
Reply to comment by thedeebo in English is such an unreasonable language that spelling is a national sport by eldrolamam
> It's "reasonable" if you know when and where the word was picked up
Ok, let me stop you here, how tf am I supposed to know????? Does the average English speaker know? And even if so, English pronounciation has been evolving separately from spelling for centuries so it doesn't really matter.