Timeline for Why aren't pictophonetic characters more consistent?
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| Feb 28, 2022 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackChinese/status/1498312044055080962 | ||
| Feb 25, 2022 at 16:09 | comment | added | Elchanan Solomon | @StumpyJoePete: Yeah, that's exactly what I was looking for. I already know things are inconsistent, I'm curious as to why they are inconsistent in the way that they are. The phonetic component is just consistent enough to be helpful, but is absolutely full of irregularities that themselves seem to follow some larger pattern (like English spelling). | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 6:53 | comment | added | Pedroski | Haha, blame the French and William the Conqueror for crazy spelling! If he hadn't shot King Harold in the eye in 1066, the French would never (maybe) have set foot in England! | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 23:44 | comment | added | Stumpy Joe Pete | @Pedroski , you could ask this same question about why English spelling is so inconsistent, and it would also have an interesting answer that draws on historical sound changes, borrowings, etc. It's not just for no reason! | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 16:38 | vote | accept | Elchanan Solomon | ||
| Feb 24, 2022 at 15:12 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 24, 2022 at 9:15 | comment | added | Pedroski | Why do you expect any natural language to be rigidly dogmatic? How many ways are there of pronouncing the English syllable "ough"? How many ways are there to say the vowels a, e, i, o, u? | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 3:38 | answer | added | lilysirius | timeline score: 7 | |
| S Feb 24, 2022 at 1:04 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Feb 24, 2022 at 1:04 | history | asked | Elchanan Solomon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |