On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:51:21PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> [English is] 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.
I can believe that. When I was studying Russian and found out that
things are spelled like they're pronounced and pronounced like they're
spell, it was heavenly.
--
"Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do."
Steve Brust, Message <5.1.0.14.0.20030402171954.02c5bd00 at localhost>