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

At 4:33 pm -0700 26/5/02, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>Siyo!
>I was being a bit facetious.  However, I remain amazed
>at the number of English speakers who complain about
>French spelling when English is much more of a
>nightmare.
Understood  :)

I happen to think English spelling is worse than French.  But what I was
taking exception to was (maybe I had misunderstood) the notion that English
is so very different and that all other orthographies are comparatively
easy.  I was pointing out that there are, in fact, other orthographies
which are found to be awkward by their users.

I was,to be honest, surprised by my daughter-in-law's assertion.  But she
insists on it.

Ray.


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