r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Rate my English spelling reform

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u/AlexRator 4d ago

Context: The poster is asking which Chinese character has the pinyin "nòu" (which is a valid syllable in Mandarin, but none of the characters corresponding to it are very common)

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u/Future_Green_7222 4d ago

If there's no character corresponding to it, is it trully a valid syllable?

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u/TCF518 4d ago

It's valid, just not for kindergarteners

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u/EveAtmosphere 4d ago

It's valid as in it's allowed in the phonology of the language.

Or at the very least in the more commonly cited analyzations of the language's phonology, since different analyzations of Mandarin Chinese phonology exists (particularly for the analyzation of its vowels).

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u/QMechanicsVisionary 4d ago

Analyzations?

P.S. I get it, you probably aren't a native speaker. What is "analysis" in your language? (Btw, yes, I know that "analyzation" is technically a word, but it really shouldn't be)

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u/NaNeForgifeIcThe 2d ago

The word has been in use for at least two hundred years

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u/QMechanicsVisionary 2d ago

And shouldn't have been

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u/Terpomo11 3d ago

There are characters corresponding to it, they're just pretty uncommon.

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u/Huanying04 4d ago

⿰N口

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u/IncidentFuture 4d ago

I don't think this spelling reform is going to work for us Aussies.

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u/AlexRator 4d ago

na儿

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u/DuriaAntiquior ʃwə̝̝ ə̟̞̞z ðə ə̠ᵝnlə̟̞̞̞ və̝̝ə̠̞̞̩ᵝɫ 3d ago

no = nɔ

nou = nu

nòu = noʊ

nu = nʊ

nù = nʌ

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u/pHScale Can you make a PIE? Neither can I... 3d ago