• Ephera
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      52 years ago

      Assuming that’s German (also my native language), I would say the difference is that German has far fewer recent influences from other languages and also had relatively recent standardization efforts on spelling, so there’s usually a unique spelling for a given pronunciation.

      And when we do have unusual pronunciations like in “team”, “garage”, “handy”, you can’t really mix them up with another word.