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Re: orthography and pronunciation

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 18, 2001, 23:04
>> > WIBNI? >> >> Sorry. Wouldn't It Be Nice If.>>
Thanks. I wondered about that too.
>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...)
I LIKE movies with subtitles, because I can read them quickly and then concentrate on the language (well, at least if it's Romance). Helpful for learning slang (and with recent fare, the dirty words). Of course, the subtitles aren't always exact....

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Dan Jones <feuchard@...>