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Really makes me think I tried too hard learning this language. (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is not true for my native language.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Assuming that's German (also my native language), I would say the difference is that German has far fewer recent influences from other languages and also had relatively recent standardization efforts on spelling, so there's usually a unique spelling for a given pronunciation.

And when we do have unusual pronunciations like in "team", "garage", "handy", you can't really mix them up with another word.