• Mr. Satan@monyet.cc
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    8 months ago

    Look, english spelling is already a mess for me to parse (non-native speaker). If y’all start using this other alphabet, I’m just not gonna bother reading.

    “Oh no! Anyway” kind of comment, but I must protest somehow.

    • apostrofail@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Ban ñ from Spanish! My language does not have this character!

      Non-native speakers tend to mess up dental fricatives in speech as is. This usage is a good reminder as a character for a sound your language doesn’t have… a lot of languages “th” is pronounced as English “t” which implies aspiration like in Thomas. It is just like learning any other non-Romantic language & is literally in Icelandic—not some made-up character.