En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
>
> Or, as I've said before, you simply avoid writing altogether because
> you
> are petrified of getting it wrong. I daresay there are no
> francophones
> who are proud of their inability to spell, as certainly some
> anglophones
> are (Mark Twain is a famous example).
>
Indeed not. Here people are proud of not being good in maths. But being bad at
spelling is a shame... Those eternal cultural differences...
>
> English, of course, has no official spelling anywhere. Its various
> orthographies are locked in by Hartree-Fock processes.
>
Hartree-Fock?
>
> I didn't say it wasn't so, I said it was irregular.
>
Sorry, I misunderstood you then :(( .
Christophe.
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