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A community for funny phonetic misspellings of words or phrases. Bonus points if this misspelling comprises actual words, like this community’s namesake: Bon appétit —> Bone apple tea

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[–] andscape@feddit.it 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling...

Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it's trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies...

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a Hungarian, me too. We spell everything exactly as we write it.

[–] CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I, uh... um, yeah. I would hope that you do. (I assume you mean you spell exactly as you speak lol)

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

But do you pronounce everything as you speak it? /s

[–] LogarithmicCamel 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.

[–] TommySalami@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hell, it's spelled phonetically enough for English too. "gn" making the same sound as in "gnome" will pretty much get you there.

I guess to be fair it's just not a common phoneme, and spelling can be a crapshoot in English.