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minus-square@lowleveldata@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-211 months agoJesus how do you people live with language with letters so confusingly similar such as E, EL, EM and EN?
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetlinkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-211 months agoThose are easy. What’s really silly is that in certain fonts I and l look exactly the same! Yes, those are two different characters that I typed. Here they are in a code block I and l
minus-square@MBMlinkEnglish4•11 months agoThere’s always the NATO alphabet: Echo, Lima, Mike, November
minus-square@jaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoIt’s E. L, M and N. It’s just kind of a joke when you first learn the alphabet and sing the kids song, how L, M and N happen to be pronounced when said in sequence. What language do you come from where there is no such similar phenomenon? (It’s basically an alliteration.)
minus-square@lowleveldata@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoActually didn’t know the song. I only speak Chinese and Japanese other than English.
Jesus how do you people live with language with letters so confusingly similar such as
E,EL,EMandEN?Those are easy. What’s really silly is that in certain fonts I and l look exactly the same! Yes, those are two different characters that I typed.
Here they are in a code block
I and l- Martha Stewart
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There’s always the NATO alphabet: Echo, Lima, Mike, November
It’s E. L, M and N.
It’s just kind of a joke when you first learn the alphabet and sing the kids song, how L, M and N happen to be pronounced when said in sequence.
What language do you come from where there is no such similar phenomenon? (It’s basically an alliteration.)
Actually didn’t know the song. I only speak Chinese and Japanese other than English.