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| Carlucio Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4859 days ago 70 posts - 113 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 25 of 28 19 February 2013 at 3:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I have problems with spelling in English, mostly with cognates, over the time Brazilian portuguese orthography has been changed from ethymological to fonetic while English remained ethymological, so i have to make sure i'm not spelling like fonetical, etimological.
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| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5465 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 26 of 28 19 February 2013 at 8:13am | IP Logged | ||
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The Georgian alphabet is perfectly phonetic. According to my Georgian teacher, there is no word in the Georgian language for "spelling" and no concept of it in the minds of Georgian people. There are also no capital letters, so no need to remember which words need to be capitalized. Edited by TixhiiDon on 19 February 2013 at 8:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| wber Groupie United States Joined 4302 days ago 45 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Vietnamese, French | Message 27 of 28 19 February 2013 at 8:36am | IP Logged | ||
No one will be perfect at spelling. Even native speakers will have trouble time from time remembering the most simplest words. For me, my achilles heel is any word that has that "ede/eed" sound. Ex. succeed, recede, precede, proceed, secede. The difficulty of English spelling lies in its versatility. Once you import a word into the language and it becomes popular enough, it will over time be considered an "English word". Though the meaning might change. It also depends on the field. I used to play the piano and almost all of the musical terms were Italian words. Ex. tempo, allegro, andante, allegretto,adagio, moderato, fermata. Heck, even the word piano is Italian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6273 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 28 of 28 21 February 2013 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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The writing system for Turkish is closely linked to the sounds of the language. Since a Latin alphabet was introduced in 1928, there has not been time for the language's writing system to deviate from pronunciation. Even so, spelling mistakes are made by people who just do not read the language enough to grasp its rules. I have seen a school textbook offering a guide to spelling of Turkish words, which suggests that such knowledge cannot be taken for granted just based on hearing the sound of a word.
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