Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:08:00 -0700 From: Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000410100800.C17389@sofia.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <8cq29v$1mud$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>; from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de on Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 03:58:23PM %2B0200 References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <v04220806b5137b59347a@[195.238.1.121]> <xzpn1n5q1ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <8cq29v$1mud$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com> wrote: > > > I would like to introduce you all to a language where there is NO > > difference between spelling and pronunciation: Italian. > > Italian is certainly very regular in this respect. > (BTW, why? Hasn't written Italian been largely the same since > Dante's times? A lot of time for irregularities to creep in.) Try to read to an italian La Divina Commedia and ask him if he uses the same words :-) Seriously, the italian lexicon has changed a lot (or, probably, has simplified the spelling), but the one-to-one mapping between spelling and pronunciation is always the same. Marco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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