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396 points smartmic | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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nick238 ◴[27 Jun 25 04:11 UTC] No.44393641[source]▶
In non-phoenitic languages, i.e. English, many of these methods are painful, especially "Last is First". See "I", but then it's "In", so you need to mentally backtrack some understanding. See "t", but then it's "that", so if you're subvocalizing to read, you need to reform the phoneme because 't' is a different phoneme from 'th'.
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1. taeric ◴[27 Jun 25 15:43 UTC] No.44397695[source]▶
English is phonetic? The writing systems aren't regular in that the same letter can represent different sounds. But they still represent sounds. Indeed, your confusion wouldn't even be possible if they didn't represent sounds.