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From: Yazoo <yazoo@myself.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Language etc. Was: British GP
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:06:41 +0200
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:03:53 +0200, Yazoo <yazoo@myself.com> wrote:


I wrote "fonetically" instead of "phonetically". So, pun intended!


>On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:45:47 -0000 (UTC), Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>
>>The fact the letters look the same fool us into thinking we know how to
>>pronounce the words. 
>
>Well, southern Slavic languages such as Croatian (my native), Serbian,
>Bosnian, Montenegrian are much simpler in that regard: the main rule
>is "read as it is written", letter by letter. So everything is written
>fonetically. 
>The main complication with those languages is very complicated grammar
>and word forms with lots of prefixes, sufixes, etc.
>
>Aactually all those languages are almost the same with more than 90%
>common words and rules, so we can understand each other normally. Only
>politicians and nationalists insist on differences (Serbian is not
>Croatian and vice versa).

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