Re: THEORY: language and the brain [Interesting article]

I've been thinking about it and I've found more examples of contrasting
s and z than I expected, but I still think its a less important
distinction than pronouncing T different from f and t, and D different
from d or v. I'm often amazed that people can learn to speak english as
well as they can, thinking of the number of new sounds speakers of some
languages have to learn to distinguish. I think that english is probably
very badly chosen as an international language given the large number of
sounds it uses... I'm not sure what would be as acceptable and better
though (after all, most people like english because they, or their
teachers, think it will be useful for business purposes).

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