Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?

• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  languages that lack a set of rules to correctly pronounce every word ever are mental illnesses.

  Yeah, I don’t know enough about French grammar and pronunciation rules, but I think part of the problem comes from them trying to maintain a written language that got left in the dust by the spoken language ages ago. So instead of updating the written one, they chose to ‘preserve history’ and add a landslide of little rules explaining separate cases, not just for pronunciation, but in a hugely systemic way. Native French-speakers have actually complained to me about that occasionally.

  I could give you any Spanish word you don’t know and you wouldn’t miss pronounce it.

  I love that about Castellano, just that some regions speed it up so much that I can barely catch it.

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  • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh, dialects not only sped it up, they skip parts of words too. Funnily enough, I’m from the region where our dialect is to over pronounce consonants, and thus the easiest to understand haha.

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