Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 months agoThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1498arrow-down127
arrow-up1471arrow-down1imageThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square106fedilink
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months ago English is descriptive, not proscriptive. Surely there are no languages that base their rules on forbidding certain pronunciations? (Proscriptive means forbidding; I assume you meant prescriptive)
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoIndeed, you’re correct. Although the French do have the DGLFLF.
minus-squareGurfaild@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoHiatus avoidance in Classical Latin poetry is the closest thing to a rule I can think of
Surely there are no languages that base their rules on forbidding certain pronunciations?
(Proscriptive means forbidding; I assume you meant prescriptive)
Indeed, you’re correct. Although the French do have the DGLFLF.
Hiatus avoidance in Classical Latin poetry is the closest thing to a rule I can think of