Re: The (UN)importance of pronunciation

Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:

> If you were standing in the entry of an office
> building and someone gave you these directions
> verbally, you'd have no trouble understanding them:
>
> gay oop da stars ta zi tap flour, gay dune za hell ti
> di tard dur en za leeft, oopun za dour en gay rat own
> ensad.
Actually, I find that mighty hard to read, and am quite certain I would not be
able to understand it spoken at normal speed. Of course, I'm not a native
speaker of English, but I'm equally certain I wouldn't the equivalent in
Swedish.

                                                          Andreas

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