Re: German Spelling Reform (fwd)

grandsir@natlab.research.philips.com writes:
>  Don't forget French, with all its silent letters everywhere. Those
>three languages suffer from the same problem: once the spelling
>corresponded nearly to the phonemic reality, but then the phonemic
>reality changed, but not the spelling (well, Dutch seems to me more
>accurate than French in that respect. The irregularities seem consistent
>at least - /@/ for -en suffix, /@x/ for -ig ending in every word that
>has it, etc...).
Just one of the reasons i gravitated towards Spanish instead of French
(not to mention i have a better shot of finding a job being bilingual in
Spanish around here). Since it's fairly regular in spelling, it's much
easier to remember the rules :).  I'm always amazed at how many silent
letters there are in French, so much so that i cant even begin to know how
to pronounce the words (no, i have not studied French one bit, not even
the phonology).



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