----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Simmons" <scs at lokkur.dexter.mi.us> To: "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b at dd-b.net> Cc: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:49 PM Subject: Re: A Linguistic Note > 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> > Until you realized that the nouns and adjectives had declensions and the verbs are irregular more often than not! lol warbi