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I feel sorry for people who have to learn English as a second language.
English be like, "Read is the past tense of read, of course it's pronounced differently."
English be like, "Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing."
You are like a baby, watch this:
Finnish lesson:
Kuusi palaa = Six pieces
Kuusi palaa = Your moon returns
Kuusi palaa = Your moon is on fire
Kuusi palaa = The number six returns
Kuusi palaa = The number six is on fire
Kuusi palaa = Six of them are on fire
Kuusi palaa = Six of them return
Kuusi palaa = The spruce is on fire
Kuusi palaa = The spruce returns
This is a consequence of them getting rid of finnish kanji in favour of rōmaji smdh head
The first instance of written finish we know of is a German writing "I wish I could learn Finnish" wrong.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
The official Danish dictionary lists seven different words for the spelling "bakke", all of them with unrelated meanings and etymologies and all of them pronounced exactly the same.
bakke snagvendt
Wanting to complain about elements of Japanese while learning it but knowing English is the most convoluted shit ever and I have no ground to stand on
I've seen it claimed by a linguist or two that English orthography is about as opaque as Chinese, and I don't agree but I think it's not that far off
Is orthography a relevant concept in a langiage that doesn't technically have "spelling"?
Yes, because orthography wasn't just me trying to say "spelling" in a pretentious way, it was to refer to the standardized way to write in a language, which include all aspects of writing, so a symbol representing one spoken word rather than another is also orthography, just an more opaque type of orthography than most alphabetic or syllabic systems. That said, it still often has both phonetic and semantic measures to make itself more clear, so it's not totally rote (less so in Sinitic languages other than Mandarin, because afaik the phonetic elements of characters are more consistently applicable there*). Japanese kanji are somewhat more opaque, but this is mitigated by the use of katakana and hiragana in the main writing and furigana as a reading aid, so Japanese writing overall is less opaque (but still far more so than, say, Spanish).
*I do not remotely speak any Sinitic languages, so I encourage you to do your own research on this subject because I have only a vague idea about this matter.
Chinese has hundreds of homophones (thousands if tones not considered), so it's a good idea they use different character/symbols to write them.
But there's also a lot of cases where the same character has totally diferent pronunciation and linked meaning