[CrystalLangUser]

Something that HN readers often don't understand is that being an engineer or having advanced understanding of a field does not equate having an understanding of linguistics, despite being a native speaker of a language. Merely striking out letters from words doesn't make a language or its spelling any simpler...

[gizmo686]

Not sure if that is directed at me, but I did minor in linguistics.

[CrystalLangUser]

Certainly not at you, but at the comment you replied to and a lot of comments whenever linguistics-related topics come up here.

[gizmo686]

Thanks, although I am looking back at my comment and hitting myself for transcribing the vowel as [ɜ].