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   Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 01:52:34 JST Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr

   Why does W have different rules than other letters?

   Say these to yourself:

   Fork
   Cork
   Work

   Harp
   Tarp
   Warp

   Cord
   Lord
   Word

   Fonder
   Ponder
   Wonder

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     Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 01:52:44 JST Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr

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     I can't imagine learning English as a second language, I barely understand it as a first language.

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     Enoch (utah44@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 01:53:38 JST Enoch

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     @RickiTarr 😂 right?!

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     Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 01:54:24 JST Bruce Elrick

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     • Rocketman

     @slothrop @RickiTarr
     I'm a native English speaker and took two semesters of German in university.

     I was amazed and delighted that I could just learn a small list of pronunciation rules for letters and a short list of letter combinations and that would be it, I'd know how to pronounce anything in German and stand a good chance of knowing how to spell any word knowing how it was pronounced.

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 01:54:26 JST Rocketman

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     @RickiTarr My kids are learning English as a second language. I keep telling them not to be sad if they get the spelling wrong - it's chaos pure and simple.*

     French is refreshingly straightforward by comparison.

     *) I'm the first to admit that as a native German speaker, I'm not exactly arguing from a position of strength here.

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     Yakyu Night Owl (yakyunightowl@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 01:55:06 JST Yakyu Night Owl

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     @RickiTarr It's a wilderness.

     Tear
     Bear
     Wear

     Tear
     Beer
     We're

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 01:58:35 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @RickiTarr It’s the easiest of the 10+ languages I have learned.

     Consider that we don’t learn by hearing first and later try to spell that nonsense like native speakers, we learn the writing at the same time. So it doesn’t really matter that much.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 02:31:54 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Rocketman
     • Bruce Elrick

     @virtuous_sloth @slothrop @RickiTarr Spelling in a couple of languages: https://greenskyoverme.tumblr.com/post/148877469262/different-languages-marking-long-vowels

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     Mike. 🩼🇨🇦 (mikeimback@disabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 22:22:51 JST Mike. 🩼🇨🇦

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     @RickiTarr I heard once it was the third hardest language to learn, damn those Brits for taking over the world!