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yubioh t1_je6zfwx wrote
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Reading all other comments, and I still logically end up with OP's shower thought... nailed it.
Beetsa t1_je6zcvy wrote
Reply to comment by CurrentIndependent42 in English is such an unreasonable language that spelling is a national sport by eldrolamam
And of course those examples are very artificial. At least in Dutch, such words would be correct, but not really used in practice. Compound words of more than 3 parts are rare in real speech. (Although U have used bijbelstudieleidershalfjaarsevaluatie) a couple of times.
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JackOfAII t1_je6ytlf wrote
It does on Crunchyroll. A huge number of dubbed shows dont have closed captioning. The bane of my existence right now it Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhoods closed english captions don't work. At all. So I can't introduce my auditory processing disorder having friend to the show while also enjoying the liquid chocolate of Bradley's english voice actor.
noname942 t1_je6ymwl wrote
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> It's "reasonable" if you know when and where the word was picked up
Ok, let me stop you here, how tf am I supposed to know????? Does the average English speaker know? And even if so, English pronounciation has been evolving separately from spelling for centuries so it doesn't really matter.
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TroGinMan t1_je6y61p wrote
Wait until you learn French. I can't imagine what spelling bees are like there
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TehOuchies t1_je6y47s wrote
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I actually got to pull of a "to you two too" in natural conversation. It was great.
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ColonelMonty t1_je6y2kq wrote
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They got to work twice as hard to figure out our nonsense language because they weren't born into it like native English speakers.
wombey12 t1_je6y1g9 wrote
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>"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll
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funnystuff79 t1_je6xtmp wrote
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Get yourself a death sentence and you could get them to fill it out in advance
SlimRoTTn t1_je6xtk4 wrote
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Get a spade shovel and step on it. It'll cut bush roots.
ok_my_friend t1_je6xszn wrote
Reply to comment by AC2BHAPPY in English is such an unreasonable language that spelling is a national sport by eldrolamam
Dictations are more popular because they're way harder. There are more words and you can make punctuation mistakes.
b0rt_di11i0nair3 t1_je6xsxq wrote
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Failure takes a lot of effort
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wombey12 t1_je6xjc0 wrote
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thedeebo t1_je6xexd wrote
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It's "reasonable" if you know when and where the word was picked up. For most of the weird stuff, you can blame the French. English was a regular Germanic language before 1066.
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