From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 9 9:26:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cs.Technion.AC.IL (csa.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A96137B5B0 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 09:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nadav@cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by cs.Technion.AC.IL (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA19374; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:27:04 +0200 (IST) Received: from localhost (nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA02182; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:27:01 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: csd.cs.technion.ac.il: nadav owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:27:01 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East In-Reply-To: <8cq29v$1mud$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 9 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Marco Molteni 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