Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?
darthelmet@lemmy.zip 1 day agoHuh. I hadn’t even considered how technology might affect this. Interesting.
Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?
darthelmet@lemmy.zip 1 day agoHuh. I hadn’t even considered how technology might affect this. Interesting.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, English is the go-to example because the first people to run printing presses in English were Dutch and couldn’t really spell or speak English.
There was likely similar situations in Asia as well, I’m just not familiar with their history.
bluGill@fedia.io 1 day ago
English was written long before the printing press. However it always (at least to my knowledge) used the latin alphabet which predates any written English I can find by more than 1000 years. Note that I'm not an expert on English linguistics, so if is someone claims something before 1200 I'm not aware of it but that doesn't mean they are wrong.