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To: Future Snake Eater
As I understand it, English is pretty high on the list of Most Difficult Languages To Learn.

That's just because we can't seem to come to a consensus on how letter combinations sound....

Trough
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13 posted on 01/29/2006 4:49:29 PM PST by bikepacker67
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To: bikepacker67

Chinese solves that problem by making the written form of the word completely unrelated to anything about how it sounds.


21 posted on 01/29/2006 4:53:02 PM PST by mhx
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