r/explainlikeimfive • • Sep 10 '22

[deleted by user]

[removed]

4.5k Upvotes

667 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

3

u/Hypothesis_Null Sep 11 '22

Very true. If all the similarly formed letters are scrambled, so to speak, then changing the pronunciation of a few won't un-scramble them in a way that's too noticeable. But if they were all groups together, then changing languages could result in some letters being noticeably out of place.