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CarsonOrSanders t1_je6r8ui wrote

Reply to comment by noname942 in English is such an unreasonable language that spelling is a national sport by eldrolamam

>Sounds match to letters almost perfectly so it's just not a problem.

Yeah okay. Everyone who speaks in every other language knows how to spell every word because the sounds are so perfect.

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noname942 t1_je6w02u wrote

I'm speaking for Czech, Slovak and German, (they're not exactly perfect, but when compared to English... one could say they're very consistent and regular), according to wikipedia it's like that in quite a few languages (they're listing only languages with high degree of grapheme-phoneme correspondence, English is still orders of magnitude behind German and Slovak even if they're not in the list though)

Also, according to wikipedia, spelling bee exists in only 3 languages other than English

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CarsonOrSanders t1_je75fsh wrote

Your own wiki link says the spelling bee in Uganda alone has 10 different languages.

Also Hindi, one of the "3 other languages", is the third most spoken language in the entire world.

I guess what I'm getting at is...you were wrong.

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dragonmp93 t1_je77evg wrote

Well, Chinesse and Hindi and the most spoken languages because China and India are 1/3 of the entire humanity.

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