Re: English syllable structure (was, for some reason: Re: Llirine: How to creat a language)

Andreas Johansson wrote:
>While this seems to be question of education style and ideology rather than
>of anything language-related*, I'd like to point out that I know several
>people who now the table of elements by heart (in Swedish, but from the
>Mandarin point of view Swedish is essentially English). Also, it's very
>questionable whether the average person NEEDS to know all the elements.
Alas, I knew most of it during highschool chemistry...and wish I could
remember even a bit of it now.  Since I always liked useless and otherwise
marginal things, I was quite fascinated by the "Rare Earths", always printed
off to the side and ignorable. Even the teacher couldn't say much about
them.  What, I still wonder, are the uses of  ytterbium (??)  and all those
other strange elements?

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