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Tried Amazon Luna once on a TV, it was indeed a good experience.

Yes. Linguists do that all the time. People do learn Latin, etc.

> French person here :

I could guess that solely from the space before ':'


You do not guess, you learn.

> a single way to pronounce it

Within a particular dialect, that is.


Sure; this has nothing to do with the way written words are spoken, though.

Finnish is not unique in that it has quite a few dialects like most other languages.

To be fair, the "ghoti" joke is not about pronunciation but rather about the perceived mismatch between the way a word is written and the way it is spoken.

> not about pronunciation

> about [...] the way a word is written [vs.] the way it is spoken.

That concept is called pronunciation.


Not exactly. Pronunciation varies between dialects and accents; it is the subject of a linguistic discipline called "phonology"; writing systems or difficulties arising from their "irregularities" with respect to spoken word do not concern it. Put differently, speech and pronunciation, while related, are not the same.

60 is the smallest of the five numbers below 100 (the other being 72, 84, 90, 96) that have most divisors (12, to be exact).

What's currently missing from the automatic conflict resolution is intelligence. The AI doing merges is the future.

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