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To: Biggie Smalls who wrote (381)	1/3/1998 3:24:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 4711

Biggie, Amazing, a masterpiece. Bookmarked and printed. Some do say "ahnt" instead of "ant" for aunt, however. Jack

To: Biggie Smalls who wrote (381)	1/3/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 4711

Biggie -- That poem was great -- and right ON topic, not OFF. Incidentally, there is one language (at least) in the world that congenitally poor spellers would love. I am thinking of Czech, which is written EXACTLY the way it is pronounced. The vowels a,e,i,o,u are always pronounced the same way, whether the stress falls on them or not; stress is always on the first syllable; and on top of that, long vowels are marked. In fact, you can read Czech aloud, pronouncing it 100% correctly, without understanding the meaning of a single word you are reading. Too bad we can't do the same for English, but of course that is a hopeless proposition.