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    1 day ago

    Wait until you hear the bastard child of French, germanic and a bunch of other languages. You can have a word like “lead” and you don’t even know how to pronounce it!

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        14 hours ago

        Clearly, the solution is to make your own writing system for English and then have noone use it so it just looks like weird gibberish to them

        “Y lov tu réd, y red an intarestiŋ buk tüdá.”

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        24 hours ago

        Imagine you are reading this aloud, you can’t know how to pronounce the second “read” until you get to “yesterday”. Schrödingers pronunciation.

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          23 hours ago

          Actually, you’re right, I didn’t even think about it

          If I wrote “I love to read, I read an interesting book every day”, then the way you say the latter ‘read’ shifts from my original example, and it depends on context that comes later in the sentence

          Wack

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        24 hours ago

        For those illiterates who need a clear example, “lead lead lead.” Simple geography.