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The wonders of English spelling (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and english is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR from the worst, thai is afaik basically the same as it was hundreds of years ago, to the point that people can read old texts quite easily.

[–] vaultdweller013 4 points 1 month ago

Also Icelandic is so archaic compared to the other Nordic nations that they can more or less just read thousand year documents like how we may read writings from the 1700s.