• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    I disagree though, when you adopt from other languages the sounds follow. Of course designers don’t feel like that, but they would be wrong.

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        7 hours ago

        That’s actually exactly how it works and how language evolves…foreign words are absorbed into a language, adding the new pronunciations to itself. There’s already a ton of English words that are either directly from foreign languages or heavily inspired by them, including their pronunciation and spelling.

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          But that’s not what we’re talking about. It’s extremely extremely rare for a language to adopt a new written character.