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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 19:01:46 GMT
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Karim wrote:
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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..:-)
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> Thanks not not half of it, Selçuk,
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> According to english spelling rules it is possible to spell "fish" as "ghoti"
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".
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| (...) 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) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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