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0 pointsbandrami3y ago0 comments

Fair. And, yes: spelling bees make no sense in a phonetic language. It really is an English thing.

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peepee19823y ago

Yes. And German isn't even the most phonetic language I speak. That would be Croatian, where even loanwords are spelled phonetically, which isn't the case in German.

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0 pointsbandrami3y ago0 comments

Fair. And, yes: spelling bees make no sense in a phonetic language. It really is an English thing.

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peepee19823y ago

Yes. And German isn't even the most phonetic language I speak. That would be Croatian, where even loanwords are spelled phonetically, which isn't the case in German.

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