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Re: Got my Battle Droid!!
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:20:26 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Selçuk Göre writes:
> This is actually all I wonder about English Language. If you can read and
> write it as "teknik" (this is the word both written and read in Turkish,
> which means technical) why you use those unnecessary letters  such as in
> word "technic"? It's really strange that letters changing their
> pronunciations with their positions in the words and their neighboring
> letters..:-)
> 
> Selçuk


It's all really a conspiracy to try and fool all the non-english speaking
contries of the world.  :-)

Seriously though that is what makes English one of if not the hardest language
to learn in the world.  There are just so many "rules" that have exceptions I
often why they have rules in the first place.


Eric K.

The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/



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  Re: Got my Battle Droid!!
 
(...) Well, it's because we have taken so many words *from* other contries (sic). I believe France deserves the abuse for the word "technique" ;-) -John (...) (27 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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