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Re: Got my Battle Droid!!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:17:30 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..:-)
Thanks not not half of it, Selçuk,
According to english spelling rules it is possible to spell "fish" as "ghoti"
see if you can figure that one out! :)
--Karim (Kah-reem)
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 | | Re: Got my Battle Droid!!
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| (...) I read that one in Anguished English, but I can't remember who originally coined it. It wasn't George Bernard Shaw, by any chance, was it? Dave! (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: Got my Battle Droid!!
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| (...) I remember the first speach synthesiser program I ever played with. It was for an Apple II, and must have been programed to recognize this construction and pronounce it "fish". (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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