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As a Spaniard this is bonkers. We have dialects but everyone is taught how each letter sounds and that hasn't changed in a long while. Even when there have been changed, there's a central institution that records them. Our language is consistent withing it's ruleset. It's crazy how inconsistent English is. Just don't change the sounds each letters do, why is it so hard?? It's so weird.
If someone wants to pronounce a word differently (not shorten, just straight up different) hit'em with a stick and yell them to speak properly at school. Ffs.
Your comment shows an ignorance of how language works.
As a Spaniard you should know that a) Spanish is one of the most diverse modern languages, and b) it has seen a large number of structural changes in both pronunciation and grammar since even Cervantes' Early Modern Spanish.
Spanish spelling also follows general etymological principles, and has similar inconsistencies with English for the same reasons, though it doesn't have as many sources for loanwords, and so it doesn't have quite as many subregularities in its orthography as English does.
Languages don't care whether there's a "central institution" recording it, because language is constantly negotiated between speakers, and so we will continue to see exactly the same sort of divergence of arbitrary orthographic practices from pronunciation that we see in English, along with all of the already-existing dialectal differences.
/c/badlinguistics
There's a difference between a spoken dialects existing and everyone being taught as a kid how to sound letters the same way. There exists a unified way of speaking the language in Spain that if you do everyone understands you.
About the link you linked on inconsistencies with written to spoken.
Then it describes inconsistencies that don't exist in Castilian. In Castilian X is always ks, using x as sh is something only done in regional dialects or languages. They even use Mexican as an example when in Spain Spanish, it's written and pronounced Mejicano and Méjico, with the hard J that our grammatical rules would force you to say when reading that word. We now use the x to write Mexico but that's similar to how in English you now write Türkiye, because it's a given name and for respect. Same for Ximenez, I believe that's in Catalan/Valencian and they do pronounce it as sh, but that's another language now is it? In Spanish that surname is written and pronounced Jimenez.
Sure, having a common ruleset doesn't help when negotiating /s
The fact that y'all have so many loan words that make your everyday life and you have to learn in a case by case basis of how each word is "supposed" to be pronounced is crazy. In Spanish and other similar Latin based languages we automatically know how to pronounce words we have never heard because the language is unambiguous from written to spoken, no one will look at you weird or tell you you spelled stuff wrong if you follow the ruleset. We even have the ` to indicate the syllable that needs to be stressed so that it's obvious for a reader how to pronounce words.
Yeah the language has changed, sure. But dismissing a central organization that records them and maintains a strong ruleset that incorporates changes is silly.