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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/linguistics_humor

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I've seen enough French spelling to get it, though, and I don't really speak French. English spelling is still often hard as a native speaker.

You guys can have second place, our system is the most ass "bar none".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Our system needs a deep reform; yours needs to burn to the ground and fully rebuild.

[–] MonkeyBusiness 9 points 2 months ago

Uh oh, the internet is starting the Napoleonic Wars 2: Electric Waterloo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay English is weird but y'all got nothing on Japanese. I mean what the hell is this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Multiple systems of writing at once is terrible in a different way, yes. I hear they still have page rendering issues in 2025.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I was more talking about the number of readings for one character but yeah that too.