[zogrodea]

I like Arabic's diacritic system which makes pronounciation of a word you've only previously read predictable.

I remember once pronouncing "stoic" as "stoyc" instead of "stow-ik" once in English for example. My limited knowledge of Arabic indicates that one diacritic produces "aah"-like vowels, another produces "ooh"-like vowels and another "iih"-like vowels, and even though some other modifiers come into play later, it's still predictiable how a word is pronounced just from reading it. Would be happy to be corrected if I am wrong.

[kybernetikos]

If you're a fan of diacritics, you can write stoïc in English. Apparently the New Yorker uses them still. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...