• GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    It’s not the fault of the people for mispronouncing, it’s the fault of the English language. In majority of languages, words are pronounced the same as they are written/spelled. English is fucked up.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Plenty of other languages don’t pronounce words how they are spelled.

      I’m studying Russian, plenty of letters have different sounds than their spelling sound depending on where they are in the word or sentence. the russian v can sound like f, and the russian d can be a t, etc. and many russians in casual speach drop entire syllables from words or blur consonants into one sound. The only language I studied that didn’t do this was German.