Re: French and English (was Re: Spelling WASRe: Optimum number of symbols)

En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

>
> In this example, I did not take into account a tendency I noticed in the
> past
> among my French colleagues, that a word, only slightly mispronunciated,
> becomes
> completely incomprehendable for them.
>
A situation that often baffles foreigners, including my friend who still cannot
understand that the barman he had ask for a port really couldn't understand him
until he said "porto".

Christophe.

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