Re: "Usefull languages"

Siyo!
See below:

--- Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:54:14 +0100, Florian Rivoal
> <florian.rivoal@...> wrote:
>
> Compared to English, almost any modern language
> looks like the IPA! Except
> Tibetan (and possibly Burmese; I don't know much
> about it, but it looks
> hard to read). While few languages are as easy to
> read as Finnish or Czech,
> there can hardly be many languages with as many
> pitfalls as English when it
> comes to spelling.
Just though it interesting that you mention Finnish
and Czech (not familiar with the second, but what
little I've come across Finnish fits what you say),
and not Spanish, which is probably at least 99.99%
phonetic, from my experience.

Clint

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