Comment on Children never lie

• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fuck spelling norms.

  Make English Phonetic Again!

  MEPA!

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  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tequila is actually phonetic in Spanish, lol

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes. But phonetic languages phoneticise loanwords.

      Ie. In Japanese the word “coffee” has bexome a loanword. But they don’t keep the unphoneticised english version. They phoneticise it to fit with their pronounciation and it becomes kohi.

      (This is complicated of course by katakana and such but just an example. German tends to so the same, since it’s phonetic.)

      Ie. German Kaffee from turkish kahve

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      • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I actually know Katakana and a limited amount of Japanese so yes, I know what you mean.

        Great point about phoneticized loanwords though!

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      • lenny@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Small correction: Komputer is not a german word, but it might have been three or more decades ago.

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If I could go back and slap the shit out of the inventor of katakana I would. Can you imagine a French class in the US where some kid says “Joo my apple John Clod Van Dam. Joo soois Americane,” and the teacher telling them it’s perfect?

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  • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hell is a world where you write common english with the IPA alphabet

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You dont need IPA to make it phonetic though:

      You can stick with latin and just make phonetic rules consistent so if you hear a word you automatically know how to spell it. Like in german.

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      • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s technically possible to use the esperanto phonetic alphabet, but it would still look incredibly weird

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  • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think you mean MEFA

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