From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 7 8: 0:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1FCA37BA01 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 07:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 1318 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2000 14:59:19 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 7 Apr 2000 14:59:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 1492 invoked by uid 211); 7 Apr 2000 14:59:18 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:29:17 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000407202917.A1417@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:30:01PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I really hate to do this :) but Thus spake Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Apr 7, 2000 AD: > naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes: > > Admittedly the reverse direction is something of a problem, since > > there are often many (combinations of) letters that map to the same > > sound as well as all those silent final consonants. You can observe > > the difficulties this causes for native speakers over on the French > > language newsgroups (fr.*). > > It's only a problem if they didn't pay attention in class. Bar a few > exceptions, there are good ethymological reasons for most spellings, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ that's "etymological". - Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message