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Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by surement on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @04:46PM (#14455761)
English is one of the rare languages that have heteronyms, and that's extremely weird for anyone coming from a language without them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)

Note the article only exists in five languages.

Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by yread on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:32AM (#14458769)
Lots of languages have them but their wikipedias don't have that article: French, Swedish, Arabic, Dutch, Turkish, Czech, Latin, Italian, Spanish. Surprisingly even languages with orthographic depth of 1 have them

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/heteronym-homograph....

Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by Mithaldu on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @04:51PM (#14455815)
To be a little more exact: Have large amounts of heteronyms to have them be common and not strange exceptions.
Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by yongjik on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:46PM (#14456193)
English spelling is horrible, but I feel that the number of English heteronyms is not notably high, especially considering the state of the spelling system.

I think heteronyms are bound to arise in most languages with Latin-based orthography, because they tend to borrow words from other Latin-alphabet-based languages without changing spelling. Some words are bound to collide with an existing word with the same spelling.

Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by yehi on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @06:45PM (#14456519)
seeing as most Semitic languages are written without vowels, I would assume that almost all of them have heteronyms