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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (1067)	5/12/2003 12:43:25 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4912

Then there is French. Where you pronounce verbs the same but write them differently, just because they are used with I, you, him/her, we, you (pl.), them. (To come) Je viens Tu viens Il vient Nous venons Vous venez Ils viennent And the "subjunctive" ("that I came") que je vienne que tu viennes qu'il vienne que nous venions que vous veniez qu'ils viennent The four bolded verbs are pronounced the same. Nobody knows why they are written differently. The best are the phonetically written languages like Italian and Turkish. You would be able to read both even if you did not understand a word :-) And then there is Arabic and trust me, you would hate to learn to read THAT language...

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (1067)	5/12/2003 2:07:25 PM
From: jrhana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4912

<english has to be the stupidest language ever when it comes to spelling and pronounciation.> It is an abomination I am lost without spell check It is interesting that Spanish is the polar opposite. The language has a beautiful order to it. Among life's ironies is that most Spanish speaking societies border on anarchy. I have heard it argued that that is because the language is so beautiful that everyone spends an inordinate amount of time listening to themselves talk.