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[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

Spanish would never pull this BS on you.

[-] AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The power of phonetic languages.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I don't speak Spanish, but do Spanish authors pull the same shit English ones do, where they give characters absolutely nonsense names with ambiguous pronunciations? Is it even possible? I will read a name of a character or place and spend the next 20 chapters reading the word twice or three times in different ways.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

My biggest gripe with spanish is J having the "ha" sound. Juan is spelled "Hoo-an", Jesus is "Heh-zus", etc. If you can get over that, the rest is mostly phonetically sound, like portuguese

[-] Skates@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

I think you'll find even in Spanish Juan is still spelled Juan and Jesus is still spelled Jesus.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Portuguese, to me, sounds like this: msh msh oowow msh msh. I love it.

[-] Welt@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 months ago

It's striking how different it sounds. I have knowledge of Latin, French and German, and Portuguese sounds way more like a German dialect on casual overhearing than the one it's derived from or its modern descendant it's closely related to!

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