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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (18 children)

If ther's on thing I hat, it's words ending with silent e's. And whil we'r at it, we ned to get rid of doubl e's as well.

[–] brotundspiele 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Dubl e's mak sens thou. Ther's a diffrenc between feed and fed, or between need and Ned. The dublin maks the E longer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

No, the doublin makes the [e] into [i:].

[–] brotundspiele 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So we should write fiid and niid then? In German, if you wanted a word that's pronounced like the English need, you'd write nied.

Anyhow, just removing the second e without replacement would not help in knowing how to pronounce the word by reading it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nah, let the native speakers decide how they want to write their language. I just wanted to take a bit of a jab towards how messed up their vowels are.

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