How can you tell the difference between "AI" and "Al"? Who the fuck designed these letters?

Footnote: lowercase "ai" & "al"

Âî and àł 😏

@C0D4 Î and I are different 😛 they're even pronounced differently. Dunno about the other one you used.

@C0D4 Ł is pronounced quite like a W as far as I know.

@NoMad do you speak Romanian?

@100110111 it depends on language. I wonder if there is any letter that is pronounced in the same way in every language that uses it.

@electrineer the only language I know that uses that letter is Polish. Please enlighten me if there is another

@wiki ł

In case the bot is long dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Maybe Al was AI all along!

@electrineer yea I looked it up myself.

@NoMad https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Pronounced differently? Where?

Oh, I did forget we had English as a base reference...

Here I was thinking what so do you mean i [i:] and î [i:] are pronounced differently

@electrineer nope. I just... know things... 😬

@100110111 "long stressed i" is basic definition, but what I've heard is more like a "ea". Like meat or beat, but still a tad different cuz longer and more musical.

@NoMad so [i:]

English is a hodgepodge.

Recently there was a twitter hashtag #DoItKanlzlerin ("do it, chancellor [Merkel]"), misread as DoltKanzlerin ("dolt chancellor").

Americans are also using a vertical bar for the digit 1 in hand written text and some fonts.
Like I2345.

Even more confusing in math formulas.

For example the absolute value of x times eleven would look like this:

| x | ||

Blame the Romans, who were the ones to introduce lowercase to the Latin alphabet.

@Sabro IMAGINE IF WE WOULD ALL SPEAK LIKE THIS

@electrineer COGITES HOC EST SI OMNES LATIN LOQVIMVR!

Now I’m wondering why there is lowercase and uppercase at all.
I never questioned it before.

@Lensflare It's easier to write by hand (while straight lines are easier to chisel into a stone monument) and then some king told us to use lowercase because he liked to decide what things were fashionable.