Re: "Usefull languages"

--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
> En réponse à Florian Rivoal
> <florian.rivoal@...>:
>
>
> 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 :)) .
>
The nice thing in French is that, although several
different letter combinations may represent the same
sound, one letter combination almost always represents
one sound.  However, in English, not only do you have
the first part of that, but on letter combination can
have many sounds: "I cough as I plough through rough
dough in Scarborough," for example.

Clint

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