Re: Language changes, spelling reform (was Conlangea Dreaming)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Jarrett" <syberseraph@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: Language changes, spelling reform (was Conlangea Dreaming)


> > If I'm not mistaken, Old English was spelled more or less phonetically.
>
> Thats one thing which drives me crazy is that English is so tricky on
> spelling, it is one of the things which makes it so hard to learn for
> immigrants.
rereading my message I see I didnt fully finish it, I meant that English has
so many cases where there is a silent letter or sounds which are made of
different letters, ph for example.

Anyways,

Patrick


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