Re: A BrSc a? & Nyuu Romaji
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 21, 2002, 15:16 |
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Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> >I can't quite tell if you realize that "Myanmar" is pronounced ['b@m@].
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> And they say English spelling is evil?!?
Complicated is one thing, complicated *and* irregular quite another.
About 87% of English words have pronunciations that can be predicted
by the (complicated) rules; the remaining 13% can't. AFAIK
100% of Burmese words are predictable by their (complicated) rules.
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John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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