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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that's not actually how language works.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's actually exactly how it works and how language evolves...foreign words are absorbed into a language, adding the new pronunciations to itself. There's already a ton of English words that are either directly from foreign languages or heavily inspired by them, including their pronunciation and spelling.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 1 points 9 months ago

But that's not what we're talking about. It's extremely extremely rare for a language to adopt a new written character.