From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 10 10: 7:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sofia.csl.sri.com (sofia.csl.sri.com [130.107.19.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F54F37BBAA for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:07:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter@sofia.csl.sri.com) Received: (from molter@localhost) by sofia.csl.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA17443 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:08:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter) From: Marco Molteni Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:08:00 -0700 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000410100800.C17389@sofia.csl.sri.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <8cq29v$1mud$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i 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 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Marco Molteni 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