Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> writes: > Anyway, everybody in the world ought to speak English. It's an easy, > flexible language with a great children's literature. It's widely reported to be among the hardest of the alphabetic languages (let's not get into the difficulty of becoming literate in chinese!), actually. And I don't believe "spelling" is a standard school subject much of anywhere else. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>