More sensible scripts like german or french? English is the only language that can’t spell coherently, nothing to do with the script.
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balian@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 2 weeks ago
It is weird how this kind of writing won out in Europe when it literally had exposure from all sides to far better more sensible scripts.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
balian@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 2 weeks ago
German and French aren’t scripts, they are languages that use the same script as English - Latin. And LOL if you think they are any better than English.
By more sensible scripts I mean Hebrew or Arabic, which are a lot more efficient and clear in packing words than Latin or Cyrillic.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
so the fun thing about the history of the english language is -
writing got standardised just around the same time the printing press was invented, since everyone now had access to the same resources more people learnt to read and write in a similar way. and all was well :)
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and then something that linguists call “the great vowel shift” happened. where vowels of the oral english language just kinda, did a flip. but because of the printing press thing, you couldn’t just update the ortography… and now because of that (and many other things too, but this is a significant one) english is the way it is :)
balian@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 2 weeks ago
Whoah, I went down the rabbit hole after googling this “great vowel shift” and damn if it isn’t insanely interesting! English should have naturally split into descendant languages but the arrival of the printing press in the middle of the transition messed things up royally and now the entire world has to bear the idiosyncrasies. Nothing short of amazing, thanks a lot for your reply!