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Re: orthography and pronunciation

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Thursday, April 19, 2001, 13:17
En réponse à Christophe Grandsire:

>Ah! Then yes, IWHBN (It Would Have Been Nice :) ). But I wonder, are Americans >as lazy as French people when it comes to reading subtitles? (some French >friends of mine told me that they will never watch movies in original version >because it's too difficult to read the subtitles and watch the images at the >same time. And when you count the number of people who are actually >illetrate...)
Indeed. Merkins have taken a similar tact by simply never watching foreign movies. Unless they're in something approaching intelligble speech. It's a lot easier this way! ;) Padraic.
>Christophe.

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