From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 8 13:26:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5165337B543 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:26:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from suzy.scotty.masternet.it (modem04.masternet.it [194.184.65.14]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA80454; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 22:26:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000408221854.025f4810@scotty.masternet.it> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 22:23:23 +0200 To: Aleksandar Simic From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: BSDCon East Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000407204236.A704@frustum.clara.co.uk> References: <3.0.6.32.20000407134348.0086f100@mail85.pair.com> <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000407134348.0086f100@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07/04/00, you wrote: >"G. Adam Stanislav" wrote : > > > At 10:21 07-04-2000 -0700, Marco Molteni wrote: > > >> No, but knowing Latin (even just a little Latin) helps a lot. It also > > >> helps a lot for learning English, Spanish, Italian and, to a lesser > > >> degree, several other European languages. > > > > > >I would like to introduce you all to a language where there is NO > > >difference between spelling and pronunciation: Italian. I am wondering > > >if there are other languages with this feature. > > > > Quasi tutte lingue slave. I mean, most Slavic languages. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Finally, I was conteplating of posting this myself. I am not quite >sure how Polish, Chech, Slav, ... and others work but Serbian is >possibly the simplest in this regard, since it is 100% phonetic. You >write what you say, and you read what is written. > >For example there is never an occurance of double letters in *any* >words. ie. "tutte" would be written "tute". Or another example, my >name is Aleksandar as opposed to Alexander. > ^^ ^ My girlfriend is from Split (Croatia), and after 10 years I stay with her I found that learning the Serb-croatian langaue is very difficult to me, even if I do latin in school (that can help a lot). Btw I was so surprised when I read that his neighbour has in the name + surname only two vocals letter (they were for me quite illegible :-) Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message