Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

John Cowan wrote:

> Danny Wier scripsit:
>
> > (Dyslexia is highest in English-speaking countries, I read.)
>
> It hardly exists in countries that use sensible orthographies.  But that's
> not really a defect of the *language* as such, and it can be fixed.
Right.  There are a lot of obstacles, both practical and ideological, to
that occuring, though.   One of the drawbacks about democracy is
that you can't just kill people to get your way, like Kemal Atatürk
when he Romanized Turkish. </satire>

>  German plurals are 99% irregular, and in 9 different patterns!
Oh, I wouldn't say it's that irregular.  Of those 9 different patterns,
only three or four are very productive (-(e)n, -e, null and -s for foreign
loans).

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