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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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To: mhx
making the written form of the word completely unrelated to anything about how it sounds.

Complaints continue about that defect in the English written language, and even more so in French.

26 posted on 01/29/2006 4:57:11 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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