Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace
Miaou@jlai.lu 2 months agoI’d bet a lot of money the average English speaker pronounces Volkswagen with a “vee” at the beginning
Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace
Miaou@jlai.lu 2 months agoI’d bet a lot of money the average English speaker pronounces Volkswagen with a “vee” at the beginning
zerotothezeroth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The Latin alphabet is overloaded. Words using the same script will inevitably be interpreted by other languages using their own sound systems. Orthography is bad. Plus, it’d be like asking a Spanish speaker why they say “eschool” instead of “school” (phonotactics.