Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:27:01 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.1000409182430.631A-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <8cq29v$1mud$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On 9 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com> wrote: > > > I would like to introduce you all to a language where there is NO > > difference between spelling and pronunciation: Italian. > > Italian is certainly very regular in this respect. > (BTW, why? Hasn't written Italian been largely the same since > Dante's times? A lot of time for irregularities to creep in.) > > > I am wondering if there are other languages with this feature. > > Finnish. > All languages that have only recently acquired their modern written > form. Turkish is another (its current written form is less than a century old). Hebrew is also very regular in its pronounciation, but for the opposite reason: it has been guarded for millenia against changes in pronounciation and writing (though there are two schools in the pronounciation of Hebrew - each with its own regularity). > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de > > > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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