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Why doesn't English have dots on their letters?
Brody Gray
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Caleb Young
Burgers say (almost) all their a as ä so it's pointless.
Isaac Ramirez
Who else /Languages with å ä ö ü masterrace/ here?
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Jordan Davis
Unironically a good idea but realistically any sort of spelling reform would just produce repeated letters like "aa" or "ii" rather than diacritics thanks to the standardisation of keyboard inputs.
Caleb Parker
It does have them.
Reëlect, preëmpt and preëminent uses them.
Generally, ë is used instead of two ee letters.
For English words with diactrics, check:
en.wiktionary.org
It's mostly French loanwords which use them tho.
Caleb Young
>Reëlect, preëmpt and preëminent uses them.
Those are just there to differentiate the first e with the second but nobody uses them in practice.
Josiah Walker
because french has no dots
Benjamin Sanders
>because french has no dots
Never have I seen a more appropriate time to post a brainlet wojak.
Charles King
In english, the umlauts are for making vowel pairs not diphtongs.
Blake Flores
ïü
Jace Taylor
>his """language""" doesn't have the ß
Ayden Bennett
>FRENCH NO DOT
>SO ENGLISH NO DOT
Asher Stewart
What is the difference between S and ß?
Matthew Howard
five vowels is enough
James Powell
reminder that Hungarian has 14 vowels
Connor Ward
Maybe if they ate a few of them they wouldn't be so Hungary.
Aaron Adams
english has many more vowel sounds, though
William Scott
ß is a ligature (merged characters) of the old long s (the f like character without a dash) and a regular short s. The long s also existed in English, but died out. In German, the ß ligature is used to emphasize the long s after a long vowel like in Straße (street) for example.
Cameron Myers
The only "English" word where a diaeresis (two dots) I've seen is used somewhat consistently is naïve.
Preëmptively...? I've never seen ë in English before...
Isaac Mitchell
we have a secret letter no one knows about actually
Henry Harris
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Henry King
How did English spelling manage to be worse than Polish or even French?
Great Vowel Shift and laziness of the authorities?
Alexander King
We write 14 vowels, but that equals the amount of pronounced sounds. English has less written vowels but much more vowel
sounds
Brandon Hall
two, actually... both thorn characters
Dominic Price
How do languages like Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese even functioned with so many fucking letters?
At least Japanese and Koreans had their own writing systems for different stuff.
Carson James
Yet another lovely, informative post under that flag.
Luis Baker
>His language has both, c and k, w and v, s and z c, q and ku, x and eks.
why are your alphabeat so bloated?
Ian Hughes
because it makes it harder for foreigners to learn
Brody Turner
He's implying that since the contemporary English pronunciation was born at the same time, and was interrelated to, the influence from French and Latin, you retarded anglos.
Good job knowing fucking nothing about the history of your own language.
Gavin Thomas
Ukrainian cyrllic have the same letters few times repeated.
Kayden Gonzalez
more like anglophones are just lazy typers
Luke Ortiz
æ o å > ä ö å
Caleb Hill
o
Owen Hill
They look bad and look like a pain to write.
Matthew Cruz
don't forget ë
Angel Jenkins
rareflag is rare!
Tyler Bennett
> his language doesn't have nikkud
Absolute trash