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Re: Spelling WASRe: Optimum number of symbols, though mostly talking about french now

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Saturday, May 25, 2002, 11:28
At 10:15 am -0700 24/5/02, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>D'accord... >Est-ce que je suis le seul anglophone qui croit que >l'orthographe francaise est plus facile que >l'orthographe anglaise? > >Okay... >Am I the only English speaker who believes that French >spelling is easier than English spelling?
I wasn't aware that any anglophone had actually claimed this. What makes you think you're the only one? The only person I quoted as thinking English spelling was easier than French was a _francophone_. Ray. ======================================================= Speech is _poiesis_ and human linguistic articulation is centrally creative. GEORGE STEINER. =======================================================

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