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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The fancy name for that is "linguistic prejudice". It's as old as language, and deeply ingrained in human societies, and it's typically subconscious - like, you don't even know why you don't like a certain feature, until you try to find which groups use it.

With that said, if I saw someone spell "palastinian" I'd expect the person to be an English monolingual. Native speakers tend to remember words by their spoken form (non-native ones often do it by the written form), and /ə/ can be represented by ⟨a⟩ or ⟨e⟩ there anyway.

I love the link by the way. Good example of the issue.

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