Re: Linguistics (was 2.5 kernel & spelling)

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 [email protected] wrote:

> 
> > Not to beat a horse that should have been dead quite some time ago a
> > little more, but please try to be more accurate in your use of
> > "phonetic". Every spoken language is "phonetic", being based on
> > "phones", the smallest discrete sounds used in a language. Phonetic
> > orthography is a completely different issue.

> My, My aren't you the pedantic one (-;
> cheers...james

ever wonder why "phonetic" isn't spelled the way it sounds?

rday



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