Klarinet Archive - Posting 001081.txt from 2000/02

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] languages
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:43:13 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subject: [kl] languages

>
>
> Sorry people,
>
> I know similar rhymes in several languages. The problem with English is
> only, you still spell it the way you used to spell in Shakespeares time.
> Pronunciation changed, spelling didn't. When i had an american girl friend
> somewhere around 1968 I once wrote her a "phonetic" letter. Parts of it I
> recognize in "weex"@-----. I'd advice
u:
> try to learn foreign languages, and find out about irregular verbs.
>
> Rien
>

But the trouble goes deeper than that. In some cases we kept the old
spelling and in others we did not. Then of course we have the bad habit of
adopting foreign words and keeping both the foreign pronunciation AND the
foreign spelling.

And we still have some irregular or partially irregular verbs in English.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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