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minus-squarelowleveldata@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down4·edit-211 months agoJesus how do you people live with language with letters so confusingly similar such as E, EL, EM and EN?
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·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-squareMBM@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoThere’s always the NATO alphabet: Echo, Lima, Mike, November
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 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-squarelowleveldata@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 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
,EM
andEN
?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
Oll
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.