Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
by FabHK on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:33AM
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Right, 85% for English sounds plausible. For Spanish, I'd venture much closer to 100%. For Chinese, around two thirds of characters contain a phonetic component.
In other words, English is around half way between Spanish and Chinese :-)
Oh, and in Spanish it is bijective: if you know the pronunciation, you pretty much know the spelling also.
Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
by ralferoo on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:46AM
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The counter example for Spanish is b/v which is pretty much the same sound in most dialects nowadays, and it seems increasingly common to see misspellings online, e.g. baca for cow.
In other words, English is around half way between Spanish and Chinese :-)
Oh, and in Spanish it is bijective: if you know the pronunciation, you pretty much know the spelling also.