Re:Ghoti
by tigershark on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:48AM
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Perfectly agree with Italian. Once you know the few rules you can pronounce every word that you read, unlike English.
Spanish would have also been a good example if not for the differences between all the nations that use Spanish, with the most egregious probably being Argentinian Spanish that pronounce ll sh or something like that..
The fact that "spelling bees" are even a thing is proof that something is wrong, at least if you are using an alphabet.
German is a lot better than my mother tongue (what kind of spelling is that? Tounge? Tung??) Swedish, which, while awful, is still better than English.
I would guess that the best in class would be Italian. I took an Italian spelling test (listen and write) and I got 95% correct without knowing any Italian.
Edit: and even though I read and write englush several hour a day, my spelling is still awful. I wrote a small elisp script to find out my most corrected words in flyspell. The list just grew in every direction until I gave up.