Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:05:44 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Aleksandar Simic <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000407160544.008ca570@mail85.pair.com> 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> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042145500.88181-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <v04220806b5137b59347a@[195.238.1.121]> <xzpn1n5q1ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000407134348.0086f100@mail85.pair.com>
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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
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