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kazinator 6 days ago

In the first place, "romanization" of English is unstandardized! Or was that unstandardised?

adastra22 6 days ago | parent [-]

It tends to be standardized within a single country.

merelysounds 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Standardizations can be notoriously inconsistent[1], disregarded[2] or evolve fast[3].

There’s a surprising amount of interesting articles on wikipedia about that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)#Spelling_re...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialect

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensational_spelling

qingcharles 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Whoosh :)

adastra22 6 days ago | parent [-]

No I understood. I just failed to see the relevance.

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aidenn0 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is it hiccough or hiccup in the US?

jagged-chisel 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And standardised within an empire.