Re: NATLANG: French spelling questions

At 07:11 1.3.2004, Remi Villatel wrote:

>Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>
>You should have spoken about the 101 ways to write [o] in French.  ;-)
>
>
>How French *ought* to be spelled is a whole different
>cup of tea.  Like to discuss it? :)
>
>That's funny, I've always said that French should have a phonetic script...
>but I've even never worked on the idea!  ;-)
My _gymnasium_ teacher in French and Latin, who was also
an Esperanto heavy, had a plan.  I only remember a
consistent use of é /e/ è /E/ instead of _ai_ and
â ê ô û for the nasal vowels.



/BP 8^)
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