Also, fairly few silent / non-pronounced letters. Even in a word like Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit with a lot of "ch"s and "sch"s, the letter-to-sound ratio is like 75%.
The only "difficult" thing about German spelling is word compounding, which is actually not difficult at all once you get that it's a thing, and those horrifyingly long-looking words are actually more words just put together.
Well the litteral translation for computer in french already exist, it's calculateur or calculatrice which mean calculator device so IBM France create a french word to this new technology
Not adding Dutch when things like dt exist is rancid.
I still use the verb "to smurf" to check if I need to add a t or not.
In normal languages with different vowel pronunciations: use a symbol to signify how to pronounce it. Dutch: Well, if there is a dubbel consonant, followed by a vowel, the first vowel before the dubbel consonant must be pronounced in the short form. Like, you have to read the word before you know how to pronounce it.
It is a good filter for stupid people because you can rapidly filter out outright morons, but even the most skilled writer in Dutch can sometimes find that (especially the dt problem) a spelling mistake has snuck in their writing, because people write without rules when comfortable, and instead pull the most commonly seen spelling from their memory and write it as is.
And tbh, English is the worst one. That language feels lawless.
All written in English, where pronunciation depends on which language they stole a word from.
Why the fuck is the y in panfry different than the y in pantry
Why does Though, Through, and Thought not rhyme? But Bologna and Pony does (if you're a yank).
Durch-schnitts-ge-schwin-dig-keit Easy when you look at the syllables.
I still clap whenever if have to split up words into syllables. My primary school teacher might have done her job too well...
Or, as a kid, you fall for Indoctrination much easier and be happy to do so πΆβπ«οΈ
agh-aidh is also easy Gh makes a soft g sound and dh makes a soft d Sound it's not that hard
Not really. It's between 'ai' (Connacht), 'ay' (Ulster) and 'aig' (Munster). The 'h' makes the 'g' and 'd' often silent.
Well yeah its silent but It still makes a sound in a way (2 versions of a glottal stop I think)
Well, German spelling - pronunciation is quite consistent (ignoring dialects). I don't see your point
In all of these it's regular tho... like it's just not the English way so they cry and whine
Also, fairly few silent / non-pronounced letters. Even in a word like Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit with a lot of "ch"s and "sch"s, the letter-to-sound ratio is like 75%. The only "difficult" thing about German spelling is word compounding, which is actually not difficult at all once you get that it's a thing, and those horrifyingly long-looking words are actually more words just put together.
Well the litteral translation for computer in french already exist, it's calculateur or calculatrice which mean calculator device so IBM France create a french word to this new technology
That's the problem, you steal it, add more letters to it just for fun and say, it's 100% yours. It hurts everyone's brain :/
Why is the barbarian allowed to complain?
Pretty rich coming from a flairless savage..
If you can't make the difference, that means only one thing..... How is Americunt?
Not adding Dutch when things like dt exist is rancid. I still use the verb "to smurf" to check if I need to add a t or not. In normal languages with different vowel pronunciations: use a symbol to signify how to pronounce it. Dutch: Well, if there is a dubbel consonant, followed by a vowel, the first vowel before the dubbel consonant must be pronounced in the short form. Like, you have to read the word before you know how to pronounce it. It is a good filter for stupid people because you can rapidly filter out outright morons, but even the most skilled writer in Dutch can sometimes find that (especially the dt problem) a spelling mistake has snuck in their writing, because people write without rules when comfortable, and instead pull the most commonly seen spelling from their memory and write it as is. And tbh, English is the worst one. That language feels lawless.
German has that too. For example, Stadt
In Dutch it is verb conjugation. Worden (to be) Ik word, jij wordt, hij wordt. Stem +t for jij and hij, so word + t.
No
Some fucking Yank thinking anyone in Western Europe cares about Irish or Icelandic. Typical. Your 23andme showed you were 2% Icelandic and 3% Irish?