• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Jesus how do you people live with language with letters so confusingly similar such as E, EL, EM and EN?

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      1 year ago

      Those are easy. What’s really silly is that in certain fonts I and l look exactly the same! Yes, those are two different characters that I typed.

      Here they are in a code block

      I and l

    • @jaybone
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      31 year ago

      It’s E. L, M and N.

      It’s just kind of a joke when you first learn the alphabet and sing the kids song, how L, M and N happen to be pronounced when said in sequence.

      What language do you come from where there is no such similar phenomenon? (It’s basically an alliteration.)