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		peepee1982 on Nov 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Win for Open-Source Legally: Settlement Reached in... It's easy to spell, as are most German words. It's just a lot of letters. Ironically, the word you quoted contains spelling errors.

bandrami on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

Fair. And, yes: spelling bees make no sense in a phonetic language. It really is an English thing.

peepee1982 on Nov 24, 2022 | [–]

Yes. And German isn't even the most phonetic language I speak. That would be Croatian, where even loanwords are spelled phonetically, which isn't the case in German.

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