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minus-squareodium@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoTbf, these spellings make more sense than the actual spelling. How tf is Lasagna pronounced lasanya? Fuck you romance languages.
minus-squareFixbeat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoChicken permission is my favorite!
minus-squareandscape@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoBold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling… Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it’s trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoAs an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies…
minus-squareTheGreenGolem@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-210 months agoAs a Hungarian, me too. We spell everything exactly as we write it. Edit: the reply is right, of course we pronounce everything as we write it.
minus-squareLogarithmicCamel@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoRight. ‘Lasagna’ in particular is spelt exactly like it’s pronounced in Italian.
Tbf, these spellings make more sense than the actual spelling. How tf is Lasagna pronounced lasanya? Fuck you romance languages.
Chicken permission is my favorite!
*par mayson
*Perry Mason
Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling…
Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it’s trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.
As an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies…
As a Hungarian, me too. We spell everything exactly as we write it.
Edit: the reply is right, of course we pronounce everything as we write it.
Right. ‘Lasagna’ in particular is spelt exactly like it’s pronounced in Italian.