• Liz
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    37 months ago

    I do with English would switch to phonetic spelling, including the eventi of the speaker, but we’re never going to switch. At least the standardized spelling does have a very minor advantage in terms of disambiguation with homophones. But then we had to go and mess up read/read and lead/lead.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      Read/ret lead/let -> easy 😜 but how to write “do” I mean it is not a normal spoken “o” and not exactly a “u” like it is a “u” but without (yo)u Write phonetic is more easy in German, I think, or maybe only because it is my birth language 🤔

      • @captainlezbian
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        16 months ago

        I think you might speak English with a thick German accent based on your perceptions of how you’d spell our words

          • @captainlezbian
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            26 months ago

            Yeah I was really confused until I thought about how my Großonkel would say it lol. But yeah, in my accent both those words voice the d at the end