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Which European language am I reading (jlai.lu)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/9070854

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

gonna coin the English word "milieuwise" - as in "to move towards, or be appropriate for, the current environment" and fuck this chart up.

edit: no need, found the error - on the bottom line you get to English by saying no to "chh" but it appears in hitchhiking, beachhead, witchhood, and, humorously, touchholes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like 'chh' would only count when pronounced as part of one syllable/sound. Which in all your examples isn't the case. Of course, if someone is not at all familiar with the language they wouldn't be able to make that distinction. So the chart still wouldn't be helpful in that case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The key point for me is "what am I reading" - where pronunciation doesn't enter into it.

This isn't a guide for spoken, but for written language, so it actually doesn't matter where the phoneme break occurs, only the grapheme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But doesn't reading differ from seeing by actually processing the letters into syllables and words by an internal voice?

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