Spelling is horrendous, and it takes a lot of time to memorize it and internalize it. And even then: https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/nschneid/cosc272/f17/a1/cha...
Spelling is horrendous, and it takes a lot of time to memorize it and internalize it. And even then: https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/nschneid/cosc272/f17/a1/cha...
As a developer, I'm surprised people write either "Hello world!" or "Hello, world!" In Bulgarian, as in Russian, the addressee is always set off by commas.
Don't know about Bulgarian, but Russian punctuation is notoriously horrendously complicated. I still remember a dictation [1] which had a sentence that had a comma after nearly every word. (And this last sentence would have three)
> English spelling is better than, let's say, Greek or French.
Can't speak for Greek, but IIRC in French a collection of letters usually conforms to a rule. "eu" or "ou" will rarely represent different sounds.
Whereas one of the famous spellings of "fish" in English is "ghoti": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti?wprov=sfti1
[1] Common in Soviet and post-Soviet schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictation_(exercise)?wprov=sft...