• @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    315 days ago

    I disagree though, when you adopt from other languages the sounds follow. Of course designers don’t feel like that, but they would be wrong.

    • Beacon
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      115 days ago

      I’m pretty sure that’s not actually how language works.

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        15 days ago

        That’s actually exactly how it works and how language evolves…foreign words are absorbed into a language, adding the new pronunciations to itself. There’s already a ton of English words that are either directly from foreign languages or heavily inspired by them, including their pronunciation and spelling.

        • Beacon
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          115 days ago

          But that’s not what we’re talking about. It’s extremely extremely rare for a language to adopt a new written character.