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To: zonder who wrote (1071)	5/12/2003 12:59:27 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4912

i thought the standard explanation was somebody had the bright idea to differentiate them when the language made transition from spoken-only to written? at any rate, once i grasped that, it all made sense. more or less. then you have my native tongue, in which everything - verbs nouns adjectives adverbs you name it - gets "conjugated" and virtually any root can become any grammatical structure with the appropriate mangling. and you get whacked patterns like one DOLLAR, two/three/four DOLLARS, but at five it's back to DOLLAR. eeeh. at least everything is pronounced exactly as written.