Pumpkin Spice JenYou: English pronunciation is random and lawless. It is a chaos language no one can make sense of.
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FelixArden@ConfusedImp The way English pronunciation corresponds to spelling is the thing that is random and lawless. That's not even considered part of the language as far as the field of linguistics is concerned, and all the parts that are, just like every other natural human language, are highly organized.
@ConfusedImp (It's not like the spelling-pronunciation correspondence being riddled with inconsistencies is unique to English either, though it does seem to be worse than any of the other languages I have any familiarity with.)
@FelixArden When I took German in high school and Frau Saheyda explained spelling and phonemes I thought she was lying to us, hiding the real rules so we wouldn't be scared.
@ConfusedImp Yeah, while it's not quite a one-to-one correspondence between spellings and pronunciations, it's pretty close.