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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by realusername on Saturday October 06, 2018 @03:10AM (#18153959)
English pronounciation is so irregular it looks like it's written in a wrong alphabet and would benefit greatly from some Cyrillic equivalent.
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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by dmytrish on Sunday October 07, 2018 @03:20PM (#18162186)
In Ukraine, we sometimes have these discussions about moving to a Latin-based alphabet. Some even try to come up with their version of it.

It always winds up either as something ugly with a lot of diacritics (like Polish/Hungarian) or having a lot of double/triple-letter sounds (e.g. `sh` instead of 'ш', `ye` instead of `є`, `shch` instead of `щ' and so on).

Thanks, but no, I'll take our 33 funny Cyrillic letters over a Latin alphabet.

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