Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:29:17 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000407202917.A1417@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:30:01PM %2B0200 References: <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>
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I really hate to do this :) but
Thus spake Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Apr 7, 2000 AD:
> naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes:
> > Admittedly the reverse direction is something of a problem, since
> > there are often many (combinations of) letters that map to the same
> > sound as well as all those silent final consonants. You can observe
> > the difficulties this causes for native speakers over on the French
> > language newsgroups (fr.*).
>
> It's only a problem if they didn't pay attention in class. Bar a few
> exceptions, there are good ethymological reasons for most spellings,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
that's "etymological".
- Rahul.
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