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invite-me-to-your-memories:

i understand the historical reasons why English is the most common language

but if I was writing a speculative fiction novel

and I said “the language that most people learn as a second language, usually for professional reasons, is also the only one with a spelling system so terrible that spelling words correctly is a broadcasted competition”

you’d be like “extremely unrealistic 0/10”

i never thought of this, do other languages not have spelling bees?

#no we don’t

What

Dude, the definitely do. The Cantonese spelling competitions are brutal. You think English is bad? Try a tonal language that only has individual pictographs and commit suicide in your own time. I pity the kids in Hong Kong.

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