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Re: Got my Battle Droid!!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 1 Dec 1999 01:05:25 GMT
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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..:-)
It's just the joys of living with a language that's 40% French, 25% German
(or the other way around), and a little of just about everything else. We
don't like to change stuff very often. Consider our refusal to convert to
metric.
Actually, it's a secret ploy by The Man to make language acquisition as
difficult as possible in order to facilitate socio-economic stratification
and the preservation of the status quo. But don't tell anyone.
Jesse
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| (...) The Brits have it ever worse-- random o's strewn all over in the middle of perfectly ordinary words like color or humor. We New Worlders are quite concise by comparison. Although it is about time for a neo-websterian reform. Can you imagine (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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