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  • True enough but I feel like English has more quirks than other languages though I acknowledge that may be bias.

    I used to have near fluent Irish way back when and I don’t recall any shenanigans like this (again I acknowledge I may not have been presented with them). I feel like most other languages have a more clearly defined set of pronunciation rules too.

    Irish looks horrific (Siobhán is shiv-awn for example) but very very closely follows pronunciation rules so that pronunciation would be no surprise to a native reading it for the first time. English sure as fuck does not follow rules like that.

    Near. Neat. Book. Boot. Etc.

    (Some small subset of Irish folks do say “boo-k” though)


  • khannie@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldI hate that that happens
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    Perhaps. Regardless it’s outlandish abuse of the tongue IMO and definitely would benefit from the comma because nobody’s going to just bang out 4 had’s in a row in speech without a pause without a justifiable slap across the chops and possibly a challenge to a duel.

    “But your honour, he said ‘had’ four times on the trot without pause”

    “Case dismissed”