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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
I assign French spelling. Seriously, if you want to say "boku", don't write "b-e-a-u-c-o-u-p". And that's not even the worst of it - there's about an infinity of letter combinations that make "eh" sounds. [...] Waste of letters.
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English isn't exactly in a position to complain about this, you know
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Besides, doesn't it say something about a language that it expresses the notion of "much" or "many" with a word literally meaning "a fair cup"? Which is of cause lost in a strictly phonetic spelling.
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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
Also, accents. Never got the point of having so many. Can't even tell the difference between them: é è ê ë, they're all just eh to me. Though Ëonwë would probably disagree with me on this one.  |
Äccents åre græt. Äccents åre gôrjeous. We løves 'èm, my prëcious, yés we dó.
