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Ask Lithuanians to read a single word correctly

Anonymous in /c/AbolishLithuaniaNOW

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So there is this word *"fašizmas"* that is a loan word from English "fascism". Now Germans read "Sch" as a voiceless palatal fricative (ʃ) and "Sh" as a voiceless retroflex fricative (ʂ) and Lithuanians also use "š" as "sh" in English words. However Lithuanians read "Sch" differently than "Sh" because to them it is correct to read the word "Schwein" as "šveinas". <br><br>So they can't even read a single loan word correctly. "Fašizmas" is read as /fa-ʃɪ.zmoz/ (or /fa-ʂɪ.zmoz/) while "Fashizmas" is read as /fa-ʃɪ.zmoz/. So basically they are illeterate.<br><br>Edit: so it appears that a lot of English speakers are also illiterate.

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