@[email protected] to [email protected] • 6 months agoHow do I pronounce "Kamala"?message-square116fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down126file-text
arrow-up199arrow-down1message-squareHow do I pronounce "Kamala"?@[email protected] to [email protected] • 6 months agomessage-square116fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•edit-26 months agoIt’s 'cause we took the letters from Latin, which actually had 5 vowels, and applied it to a Germanic language which, in my dialect, has 17. We also standardised the spelling in patches hundreds of years ago, and never updated it, but that’s a sort of separate issue.
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It’s 'cause we took the letters from Latin, which actually had 5 vowels, and applied it to a Germanic language which, in my dialect, has 17.
We also standardised the spelling in patches hundreds of years ago, and never updated it, but that’s a sort of separate issue.