Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 22:23:23 +0200 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> To: Aleksandar Simic <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000408221854.025f4810@scotty.masternet.it> 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> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042145500.88181-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <v04220806b5137b59347a@[195.238.1.121]> <xzpn1n5q1ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000407134348.0086f100@mail85.pair.com>
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At 07/04/00, you wrote: >"G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> 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
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