• Beacon
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    117 days ago

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

    • @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 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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        117 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.