How to Pronounce the Trickiest English Words: Ask This Frenchman

Re:How to Pronounce the Trickiest English Words: Ask This Fr... by Dylan16807 on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:17PM (#38134424)

If you're doing spelling reform, you have already decided it's worth hobbling what people have already learned in exchange for fixing things.

It is not more unnecessary than any other part of the spelling reform.

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Re:How to Pronounce the Trickiest English Words: Ask This Fr... by euroderf on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:44PM (#38135388)

Spelling reform is a continuum from do-nothing to full-phonetic. There's plenty of grey.

Consider tho that if English is nowadays a lingua franca, we submit its learners to a lot of mental torture, including vast amounts of rote memorization of both spelling and pronunciation. English may not be quite as obnoxious as its up-and-coming main competitor, Mandarin Chinese, but it's a difference of degree not of kind. My 0,02€; YMMV.

Start with common words that are one-offs that are assertively misleadingly spelled. Lose, gross, broad, height. There are many more.

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