Re: A break in the evils of English (or, Sturnan is beautiful)
| From: | Tristan <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 29, 2002, 4:24 |
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On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 08:38, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > To him and everyone else who isn't biased by the unfathomable
> > peculiarities of the French language.
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> Except that it's less unfathomable than English spelling.
From what I've seen of English and French spelling (a lot of English,
less so French), I'd have to say that English is simpler. It has more
irregularities, but it's simpler. Of course, that could be because I
speak and use English on a daily basis. But still, English would spell
_oiseau_ as 'wazo(w)' or read it as
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