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the-cosmic-alexolotl
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thegaymertrainer

This was so interesting I love yuval

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bemusedlybespectacled

there was a poem published in the goddamn 1920s, called "The Chaos," written by a Dutch speaker and its sole purpose is to make fun of how difficult English is to learn because of how many different ways the same set of words can be pronounced and how many different spellings are pronounced the same way.

in English, "pronouncing something the wrong way because you've only ever read it and never heard it spoken" is insanely common even for native speakers. (for me, "colonel" and "indict" are the worst; I pronounced them phonetically for years in my head before I found out they're actually pronounced "KERN-null" and "in-DITE") there is a goddamn meme about how we don't know how "gif" is properly pronounced because "g" can either be hard, like in "gift," or soft, like in "giraffe."

it is much less common in other languages, especially very standardized ones where you know for a fact that this letter combination is always pronounced this specific way; like, you could give me a book in German and I might not understand most of it, but I could probably read it aloud fairly well because German has a very standardized spelling.

this is partially because of how English is actually a bunch of other languages in a trench coat (our grammar is German! like a third of our vocabulary is French! "COT" AND "BANDANA" ARE HINDI LOANWORDS!)

the lack of consistency in English in spelling and pronunciation is by far the most common complaint I have heard from non-native speakers. I think the phrase my dad used is "English is easy to learn but impossible to master." it is frankly incredibly small-minded to assume that your language is easy to learn, just because it's easy to you.

#also the latin alphabet doesnt contain half of the actual vowels in english#anyways i love it bc u can make any noun a verb for free#the other time i received a reply from a person i was trying to schedule a meeting with saying that she'll pencil me in#and i cried tears of delight#also i think how hard is it to learn a language should be replaced with this language uses concepts#that are not present in your native tongue#or are taught in a confusing and unintuitive way#english practically doesnt have parts of speech conjugation while almost every other european language does#but it has a lot of rules on how prepositions and auxiliary verbs are used#japanese is difficult to an english ear bc it uses a completely different syntax and inflection and is very context reliant#but imo its a matter of understanding why certain elements of a language work the way they do instead of trying to solely learn them first#which is why im not the biggest fan of duolingo etc#i think the more languages you at least try to learn the faster youll grasp some concepts bc youll see them utilised in many diffetent ways#which will grant you a way of comparison#lang
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picckl

Alabaster Craw, a character I’m playing for a minecraft dnd-like campaign. He’s a traveler who plays the ocarina (goat horn) and is journeying to find his song

#hm. slay#art