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Re:English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals by kwhitefoot on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:01AM (#37207371)
> the discrepancy is smaller.

You mean like the French who don't pronounce the final consonant?

Anyway, fixing the orthography simply privileges the group whose pronunciation matches. And the pronunciation continues to drift anyway so you have to keep on adjusting the spelling.

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Re:English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals by bonoboTP on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:10AM (#37222194)
English and French are the two main well known exceptions. Basically all other languages of Europe are mostly written letter for letter as pronounced.
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