Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text on the web)

Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by kibwen on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:11PM (#35658576)

> It is "a guess" at best, and that guess won't be correct most of the time, unless you know the word already. And when you don't, you'll be dealing with all kinds of Cansas/Arcansas and although/drought/through/bought/cough/enough most of the time.

"Most of the time" is an exaggeration. English is (sadly) less strictly phonetic than many other languages, but still highly phonetic. Nearly every word in your own comment can be pronounced phonetically.

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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by lIl-IIIl on Saturday April 22, 2023 @04:51AM (#35664566)

"-ough" vs "-ought" are not a problem since they are different, and this there can be a consistent no-exceptions rule distinguish a them.

Same as "sch" and "tsch" are pronounced differently in German but are still considered phonetic.

Although/through/ebough is a problem tho. I wish the general public cared enuff to push a spelling reform thru.

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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by yakireev on Sunday April 23, 2023 @06:44AM (#35675104)

> "Most of the time" is an exaggeration.

"Most" like "cost", or like "ghost?" Also, only now I checked the transcription for "exaggeration", and "gg" is not "g", like in "blogger", but ʤ like in "Jason". TIL.

If this is not "most of the time", than I don't know what is.

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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by ttfkam on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:01AM (#35676818)

English is obviously your first language. No one learning English as a second (or more) language would ever make such a ludicrous assertion.

https://youtu.be/Mfz3kFNVopk

English is not learned; it's memorized.

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