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[-] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wy do yu insist so strongly on writing thre mor letters that do nothing to chang the pronunciaton of the word? Ar yu French?

[-] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

If ther's on thing I hat, it's words ending with silent e's. And whil we'r at it, we ned to get rid of doubl e's as well.

[-] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Dubl e's mak sens thou. Ther's a diffrenc between feed and fed, or between need and Ned. The dublin maks the E longer.

[-] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No, the doublin makes the [e] into [i:].

[-] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

So we should write fiid and niid then? In German, if you wanted a word that's pronounced like the English need, you'd write nied.

Anyhow, just removing the second e without replacement would not help in knowing how to pronounce the word by reading it.

[-] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Nah, let the native speakers decide how they want to write their language. I just wanted to take a bit of a jab towards how messed up their vowels are.

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