Honestly, the world lucked out with a minimal Latin alphabet become the standard. English even lost its weird special symbols because all the good printing-press typefaces were made in Germany. It’s only twenty-six discrete characters (admittedly in two cases) and they’re the most common throughout all the European languages that, uh, spread their influence.
Shame you all have to deal with our bullshit spelling.
I try and pretend the spelling oddities are a feature and not a bug. If you can recognize the language of origin of a given word, it helps you know how to pronounce it,and often the definition.
Honestly, the world lucked out with a minimal Latin alphabet become the standard. English even lost its weird special symbols because all the good printing-press typefaces were made in Germany. It’s only twenty-six discrete characters (admittedly in two cases) and they’re the most common throughout all the European languages that, uh, spread their influence.
Shame you all have to deal with our bullshit spelling.
I try and pretend the spelling oddities are a feature and not a bug. If you can recognize the language of origin of a given word, it helps you know how to pronounce it,and often the definition.
Needing etymology to guess at pronunciation is why it’s bullshit.
People have tried to fix it. Their partial success just created more exceptions.