• MudMan@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    I don’t even know what “spelled phonetically” is supposed to mean in English. As far as I’m concerned that language is just a jumble of vowels that all sound the same but generate long arguments about how to pronounce things “correctly”.

  • BodePlotHole@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, aren’t we using mostly Latin letters and sounds to spell non-Latin words?

    There’s a phonetic English alphabet out there. Some Scottish poet commissioned it years ago.

    It is named after him. But I am an uncultured swine and can’t remember who it is at the moment.