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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: why does French have so many silent letters?
gpt
It's non Phonemic, meaning that the writing system and the actual spoken language don't align. In fact technically there are no silent letters in the language, there are extra (vestigial) letters in the writing system.


Also French is mild compared to English (at least to me, as a foreigner to both). Night?  Are you kidding me?