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Isaiah Turner
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Noah Watson
Silent B is just so unnatural I get it right half of the times
It's clear God never wanted us to use English as a lingua franca, we must go back
Ian Stewart
I pronounce every silent b, and all the ts followed by ch
Juan Smith
at least half of those "silent" t's are supposed to be pronounced
Julian Evans
I heard that in German you pronounce how it's written. Is that true? Cause we also don't have phonetic bullshit in russian.
Aaron Cook
yes pretty much, it's probably one of the languages where written language is almost identical to spoken language
Justin Anderson
Although on the second thought we do have it. I'm just used to this as native speaker. In schools they never taught us phonetics and transcription tho. We, too, sometimes don't pronounce certain letters or write the others instead (for example, for some reason, instead of лeХкo, we write лeГкo - sounds absolutely dissonant and silly, but that's the rules). And I understand why many foreigners may have problems with definition of it should be soft or hard sound here and there.
Isaiah Cruz
were these silent letters pronounced literally in the past?
Liam Anderson
If you understand the Dutch grammar rules it's also phonetic.
Brandon Robinson
*spelling rules
Kevin Harris
Subtle =/= silent
Ian Mitchell
French is so much worse for this
Xavier Ward
But French is predictable, while in English you have to look up the pronunciation of each new word you learn.
Tyler Murphy
the silent h's are too
Michael Morris
French is much worse when it comes to silent letters. Chop the last four letters off Versailles and all that happens is the spelling has some relation to pronounciation. French should anglicize
Gavin Hall
>what
>Silent H
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Adrian Nguyen
The problem with English though is that its pronounciation is completely inconsistant
Example: lead and lead have 2 distinct way to say them
Matthew Thompson
russian is cyrrilic english to me
the language changed but the alphabet didn't
Jackson Johnson
Questo, peo
Nolan Roberts
but english frenchized
wouldn't that mean sinking further the shitmire?
Leo Gonzalez
The silent letters are always the same in French, there's no surprise in 99.9% of cases.
For example, words ending by -aux are always going to sound like "o". That's it.