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"I'm not even gonna try to pronounce that correctly" guys gotta be one of my least favorite type of guys (hexbear.net)

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Believe it or not it's usually not that hard to string like 3 unfamiliar syllables together if you take a few seconds to put in literally any effort you fuck

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[–] huf@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the goal should be to get it right enough that a native speaker can recognise it without it hurting their brain. this is only easy if the orthography hasnt drifted too too far from the "consensus" on what values the letters hold.

so obviously you're fucked with english, french, irish for example. german, polish, croatian, hungarian, spanish, italian, these shouldnt be that hard.

outside europe, i dunno, you're probably fucked anyway :D

edit: thought about it a bit, and you're not always fucked. indonesian for example feels like it was made to be pronounced easily by everyone, including foreigners.