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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tequila is actually phonetic in Spanish, lol

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. But phonetic languages phoneticise loanwords.

    Ie. In Japanese the word “coffee” has bexome a loanword. But they don’t keep the unphoneticised english version. They phoneticise it to fit with their pronounciation and it becomes kohi.

    (This is complicated of course by katakana and such but just an example. German tends to so the same, since it’s phonetic.)

    Ie. German Kaffee from turkish kahve

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    • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I actually know Katakana and a limited amount of Japanese so yes, I know what you mean.

      Great point about phoneticized loanwords though!

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    • lenny@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Small correction: Komputer is not a german word, but it might have been three or more decades ago.

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      • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, interessant! Mein Deutschlehrer hatte ein Lernburn aus 1985, vielleicht ist das der Grund, warum ich es so gelernt habe.

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      • serenissi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I always though komputer is what KDE people call the computer

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        /s

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If I could go back and slap the shit out of the inventor of katakana I would. Can you imagine a French class in the US where some kid says “Joo my apple John Clod Van Dam. Joo soois Americane,” and the teacher telling them it’s perfect?

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• SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hell is a world where you write common english with the IPA alphabet

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You dont need IPA to make it phonetic though:

    You can stick with latin and just make phonetic rules consistent so if you hear a word you automatically know how to spell it. Like in german.

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    • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s technically possible to use the esperanto phonetic alphabet, but it would still look incredibly weird

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      • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        (the latin alphabet is the same alphabet english is currently written in.)

        German and Italian manage to be phonetic using it.

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• Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think you mean MEFA

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