Philip Hart wrote: > > Korean is held up as an example of the way to establish a > sensible writing system instead of evolving a mishmash like > most languages. IIRC King So-and-so got a committee together, > came up with something logical and simple, and imposed it. > I am told, however, that the educated classes continued to use classical Chinese writing for more formal documents (poetry etc.). > On the subject of messes, I recently learned about some words > in French which change their gender or basic meaning when plural... > IIRC there are three words which change gender with number in general use, but the only one I can ever remember is "orgue". It's no worse than dealing with some of the more irregular Greek verbs... -- James Burbidge jamesandmary.burbidge at sympatico.ca