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[โ€“] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Is there a high-level explanation of how that clusterfuck happened? I mean, all the roman languages around France are fairly reasonable in their spelling.

[โ€“] psoul@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Because french borrows from Gaulish, Latin and Frankish and this language stew has been brewing for thousands of years.

This YouTube video explains some

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