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Re: Got my Battle Droid!!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sat, 20 Nov 1999 06:48:10 GMT
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English word spellings reflect those words' histories and etymologies.
Turkish doesn't have much of a history when it comes to a Latin script.
--
Paul Davidson, aka Tinman
http://theForce.net
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful
than you can possibly imagine."
Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote in message
news:FLEFop.7DE@lugnet.com...
> 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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> Selçuk
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> Jeff Boen <onyx@flash.net> wrote in message news:FLCxJq.6C3@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.starwars, Christopher Lannan writes:
> > > Hey guys-
> >
> > > A quick question- do most of you guys (not gender specific) say • "tekneek"
> > > or "teknik"? I usually say "tekneek"
> >
> > > Chris
> >
> >
> > "teknik"
> >
> > J
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