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> I think you're trying to to argue something like:

I'm arguing exactly what I wrote: a phonetic language is one when you can see a written word and pronounce it correctly, without knowing what it means and without having ever heard it before.

Edit - as an example, consider "door" and "pool": the written form is not sufficient to guess the sound to associate to the double o.

parent pif 1 year ago

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