From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 7 14: 7:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABA437B766 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (rh17.bfm.org [216.127.220.210]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:07:51 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000407160544.008ca570@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:05:44 -0500 To: Aleksandar Simic From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: BSDCon East Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000407204236.A704@frustum.clara.co.uk> References: <3.0.6.32.20000407134348.0086f100@mail85.pair.com> <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000407134348.0086f100@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 20:42 07-04-2000 +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote: >Finally, I was conteplating of posting this myself. I am not quite >sure how Polish, Chech, Slav, ... and others work but Serbian is >possibly the simplest in this regard, since it is 100% phonetic. You >write what you say, and you read what is written. Yes, I'd say the Serbian is the most phonetic of Slavic languages. Slovak, my language, is also phonetic, albeit not as 100% as yours, perhaps 99.9%. That is, there are a few "selected words" that children learn at school to type a 'y' instead of an 'i'. We pronounce both the same way, though. >For example there is never an occurance of double letters in *any* >words. ie. "tutte" would be written "tute". Or another example, my >name is Aleksandar as opposed to Alexander. > ^^ ^ Hehe, I bet you're going to hear from Marco on this one. Tutte is spelled with two t's because both are clearly pronounced, as in tut-te, except maybe in Veneto (the area around Venice). I believe the Venetians may be pronouncing it differently. At least, I heard an allegedly true story of a Venetian who came to Rome and congratulated someone on the occasion of "chiusura dell'anno" - closing of the year, but he pronounced it "chiusura dell'ano" which means something entirely different (closure of the anus). Cheers, Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message