This is one of those facts that everyone can see clear as day but that no one will do anything about because of inertia and attachment to tradition.
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The grammar and orthography of the French language are overly complex for absolutely no good reason and should be reformed. Virtually no one can spell French correctly.
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Also, this is true for English as well, albeit to a somewhat lesser degree.
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French, Spanish, Italians, French, Portuguese, and Romanian should just speak Latin and get rid of those dialects.
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Yes! Romanian! I did not realize how hard and twisted is until I started German. And the manual kept referring Romanian grammar rules. Well, realized that 6+ yrs of Ro grammar went gonsky when I had to googe some passive posessive dative pronoum form.
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Before French, I learned a couple of language and I was always surprised with questions asking for proficiency in reading, listening, writing, etc separately. After learning French, that question started making sense. You can speak French properly but never write correctly.
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Bad thought… Complexity can be beautiful as well.
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One thing French has that English doesn’t is the Académie française, which is an institution that conserves the French language and keeps it from changing as much as it would naturally.
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Does that really happen? How do you know?
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Write a model for that
the input should be pronunciation of french words the output is the correct spellingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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^ especially with gendered nouns, and inconsistent gendering across “neighboring” languages:
(fem) la fleur 
vs (male) il fiore 
(fem) la lune vs (male) der Mond 
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