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To: SW6906

Yeah, it is quite funny, I had already posted the link on another thread about the eruption.

We have always found it strange reading other countries languages, that they are often spoken so far differently to how they are written, but, at least for us, our words are always spoken exactly like the sounds of the words. That is why we have f.e. never understood spelling contexts, you just have to sound out the words to know how they are spelled. In fact, many of us do it for english words that have a hard to remember spelling, like f.e. be-a-uti-ful, e-mer-gency and so on.

Of course we are so small that we are more exposed to and dependent on learning foreign languages and with the exposure to their culture to us, we think we can laugh at many things and that we know so much, but of course if it was the other way around many of the things we do would be found silly.

But I have to give due to where due is bound, and they surely are getting better saying this most natural of words;)


91 posted on 04/17/2010 11:40:59 AM PDT by Leifur
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To: Leifur; winoneforthegipper
I am wondering how you are doing? I noticed the ash has pushed back on to Reykjavik today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-4TB47N3_Y
92 posted on 04/19/2010 1:14:00 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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