Wait until you hear the bastard child of French, germanic and a bunch of other languages. You can have a word like “lead” and you don’t even know how to pronounce it!
Actually, you’re right, I didn’t even think about it
If I wrote “I love to read, I read an interesting book every day”, then the way you say the latter ‘read’ shifts from my original example, and it depends on context that comes later in the sentence
Wait until you hear the bastard child of French, germanic and a bunch of other languages. You can have a word like “lead” and you don’t even know how to pronounce it!
though thoughts are tough.
“Thogh thaughts are tuff,” in a more blessèd timeline.
“I love to read, I read an interesting book yesterday”
Seriously, who came up with this shit 😭
Imagine you are reading this aloud, you can’t know how to pronounce the second “read” until you get to “yesterday”. Schrödingers pronunciation.
Actually, you’re right, I didn’t even think about it
If I wrote “I love to read, I read an interesting book every day”, then the way you say the latter ‘read’ shifts from my original example, and it depends on context that comes later in the sentence
Wack
Clearly, the solution is to make your own writing system for English and then have noone use it so it just looks like weird gibberish to them
“Y lov tu réd, y red an intarestiŋ buk tüdá.”
Uh, that is pronounced “lead”. You’re welcome.
For those illiterates who need a clear example, “lead lead lead.” Simple geography.