• Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
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    Honestly moving to american english would be a good thing for britain. I’ve seen even native mfs failing to understand each other’s pronunciation. British english has something like 18 vowel sounds but only 6 vowel characters. Multiple letters have the same sound and a single letter can have multiple sounds. That’s not what i call an alphabet. Even american english has lots of unnecessarily complexity, but it made a step in the right direction. Ideally, many more such steps should follow.

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        5 months ago

        Lol. Kids spend months studying phonics in grade school because brit english resorts to multiple vowel combinations to express different vowels. https://www.englishradar.com/english-pronunciation/english-vowel-sounds/

        Consonants are even worse, in many cases there is no way to know how to pronounce a word just by its letters, you have to know its pronunciation already. In general there are many rules and tons of exceptions. GH sometimes is pronounced F, while S is sometimes pronounced SH. Why? When? No real guidelines there.

        Some of these rules have been simplified in american english, so for instance colour became color. That’s a good thing because the only real argument against it is preserving etymological roots, which nobody gives a fuck about.

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        5 months ago

        Huffing 30kgs of american exeptionalism per day ends up damaging about 90% of neurons by age 25.

        Poor guy. 😥