No one takes as many pages as English to explain all the exceptions, all the irregularities, and it's really the matching of the spelling to the pron… - Arika Okrent

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No one takes as many pages as English to explain all the exceptions, all the irregularities, and it's really the matching of the spelling to the pronunciation that causes a huge headache for learners of the language

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About Arika Okrent

Arika Okrent is an American linguist, known especially for her book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, the result of five years of research on the subject of constructed languages.

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