Questions from an Irishman

[gothwalk]

What on earth are s'mores? And how does one spell Chanukkah? Hanukah? Channukkah? I've seen half a dozen different spellings today.

Comments

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Not when it's written, no. They have vowels that are represented by patterns of dots above and below the consonants, but generally those are only written for schoolchildren; adults recognize a word by the consonant pattern.


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[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Do circumstances not arise where there's confusion between words? F'rinstance, something like brk - is that brook, broke, break, or bork? Or is the language diverse enough that that doesn't happen?

[mightywombat.livejournal.com]

You just end up figuring it out from its context.

Jack jumped in the brk.

Careful, you'll brk it.

I'm uneployed and totally brk.

Um dedoopdedoo de dorp de daaa, brk brk brk.

See? Context.