Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 6, 1999, 22:09 |
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Roland Hoensch wrote:
> English-teachers will no longer be the (probably one of the) last remaining
> poor souls who have to remind children that rhyming words do not always
> look the same and words that look the same do not always rhyme. (as they
> more logically do in most [even] near-phonetically spelled languages)
And then we'll lose one of the most interesting poetic techniques in
English, that of eye-rhyme, which as far as I know only works in
ideographic languages as well. This hardly seems an improvement to me.