Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Ary Borenszweig wrote:
What do you mean with pseudo-phonetic?
How do you pronounce the first letter of "I"? And the first letter of
"Incredible"? That doesn't seem to have any logic! :-P
Yea, that's exactly what I mean. English pretends to be phonetic but really
isn't (at least not anymore). But I never truly saw just how non-phonetic it
was until I learned the Japanese -kana alphabets. Those alphabets really
make English's claim of being phonetic look ridiculous.
To be fair, English stems from Germanic, and pronunciation has changed
tremendously over the years. Chaucer is nearly incomprehensible to most
people, and it's just in Middle English.
