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People outside of the USA: What are some interesting, cool, or fascinating aspects of your country you'd like to share with the world? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The more I learn about other languages the more I realize that most languages do that. English probably also did that before it became mixed with french

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

English spelling wasn't even remotely standardized at that time. So phonetic was pretty much all there was