Re: "Usefull languages"
| From: | Aidan Grey <grey@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 0:02 |
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At 11:01 PM 2/12/2002 +0100, Christophe wrote:
>By the way, the French orthography is not that bad and pretty phonemic (and
>good at showing some grammatical alternations that would look rather
>strange if
>one were to adopt a phonetic orthography :)) ). Compared to the English
>orthography, it's the IPA :)) .
It's certainly better than Irish (Old or Modern)! I've determined that,
basically, one only pronounces every third letter. For example, gheobhaidh,
'will get', is pronounced /jowi/. And Old Irish is worse, where one letter
can represent three sounds: c = /c/, /g/, /X/. for example, nemed 'sacred
grove' from Gaulish nemeton, is pronounced /neveD/.
Aidan
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