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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 01:46:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jesse Long writes:
> 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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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Jesse
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 how many man-hours would be saved if we swithched from PHs to
F's in phlegm and phlegmatic and pharisee and such. Well, not that many, but it
would be nice anyway.
E Ipavec
eipavec0@sm.ivc.cc.ca.us
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| Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote in message news:FLEFop.7DE@lugnet.com... (...) 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. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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