• Miaou@jlai.lu
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    2 天前

    I’d bet a lot of money the average English speaker pronounces Volkswagen with a “vee” at the beginning

    • zerotothezeroth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The Latin alphabet is overloaded. Words using the same script will inevitably be interpreted by other languages using their own sound systems. Orthography is bad. Plus, it’d be like asking a Spanish speaker why they say “eschool” instead of “school” (phonotactics).