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biblonia
Apr 08, 2021
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Languages with high levels of heterography, the discrepency between how words are spelled and how they are pronounced, suffer the most when literacy in their constituancies starts to decline.

Heterography survives on high doses of book-based education and linguistic policing. In the absence of any formal pressures towards the norm, a word like 'enough' w…

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