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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by myth2018 on Saturday December 15, 2018 @01:10PM (#18689537)
> A native English speaker could still pronounce a word and they would have very little idea how to write it, and therefore won't be able to look it up in a dictionary.

Not by coincidence, in USA they have spelling challenges aired nationwide.

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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by __david__ on Saturday December 15, 2018 @01:41PM (#18689674)
Oh wow, I had never considered that spelling bees might be uniquely English (the language).
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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by myth2018 on Saturday December 15, 2018 @05:11PM (#18690650)
It's not uniquely english
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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by kevinios on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:19AM (#18692641)
Indeed, and I suppose spelling bees makes sense for any language that is not written exactly as it is pronounced, French being one of them. From what I've read so far, Esperanto only has a single way to write every sound it uses, so it would be much less challenging.
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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by myth2018 on Sunday December 16, 2018 @07:33AM (#18692821)
Yes. Here in Brazil there are some competitions. It's a challenge indeed (portuguese), but not such a big one.

In Esperanto there is a 1-1 relationship between letters and sounds by design, so a spelling bee wouldn't be a challenge.

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