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Message no. 1
From: kimgoyret@*****.es (Jong-Won Kim)
Subject: OT English lessons ;) (complete)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:54:30 -0500 (CDT)
-Emily wrote:
> those of us born to it. We spend our lives trying to
> figure out what we're saying and how to spell it...
>

-Gurth wrote:
Probably because someone, sometime (my guess
> is in that *&%^ing 19th century :) decided that
> written English should have as few homonyms as
> possible...
>
>

Actually, two of the "worse" aspects of English are
the fact that there are all too many identical words
(i.e, lie) and the fact that vowels have several forms
of pronunciation.

> > that's my 2 cents, anyway. I think I prefer
> the Romance languages for clarity, even if the
> sentances are all out of order :) (no offense meant
to anyone who speaks Romance Languages, I realize that
English is out of order to you too)
> >
>

Out of order? Romance languages are much more
structured than English, even my Aussie teacher had to
admit that years ago.



-Gurth wrote:
> > Yeah, but who cares what they think? :)

You're pushing us ;)

Saludos,
JongWK

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Message no. 2
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: OT English lessons ;) (complete)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:25:16 +0200
According to Jong-Won Kim, on Thursday 28 August 2003 15:54 the word on the
street was...

> > written English should have as few homonyms as
> > possible...
>
> Actually, two of the "worse" aspects of English are
> the fact that there are all too many identical words
> (i.e, lie) and the fact that vowels have several forms
> of pronunciation.

In the _spoken_ language, yes. In the written languages, the impression I
get is that when two words sound the same, "they" went out of their way to
write them differently in most cases: whether vs. weather, die vs. dye,
etc.

> Out of order? Romance languages are much more
> structured than English, even my Aussie teacher had to
> admit that years ago.

Being out of order has nothing to do with structure. Your language
difficult puts those adjectives/nouns damned in the order wrong compared
to languages Germanic from Europe northern ;P

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