On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:29:38 +0200, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Italian is by far one of the simplest languages around to pronounce >>> >> >> >> You probably don't realize it, but Italian has a certain number of odd >> rules as well, in the sense that "what you read is not what you >> pronounce". >> I'm not just referring to oddities such as "c" pronounced "tsh" ("Non >> c'è") and >> "sch" as "sck" (I hear people saying "brushetta" all the time around here, >> > > Sure. But rules are consistent. "ch", "ca", "co" is one way, "ce", "ci" is > in the other. It's more difficult to pronounce some vowels in the "open" > and "closed" way, but even if you get most of them wrong people will > understand (it falls within dialectal variations). > > For french I'm having a bad time in understanding the various exceptions > for which a trailing "s" must be pronounced (admittedly, I'm trying to > learn it more by practice than by reading grammar books, and probably part > of the problem is the fact that I'm mostly in Provence where I suppose > there are strong dialectal differences - the same happens in different > parts of Italy). I think I can give up with understanding how "ours" (bear) > must be pronounced. Fortunately it's not a word that I need often ;-) except that when you do need it, you're damned if you cant shout it =P anyhow, about japanese, Kanto (tokyo and around) japanese is extremely simple to read and speak, but try to understand or even talk like kansai (around osaka) and even though its suppose to be japanese, it sure doesn't sound like japanese anymore (and it's not about dialect back to the main topic at hand, i guess we cannot disagree that java is, at the very least, a very good language (that has survived as one of the most popular languages for the past years) with a solid runtime and back in 05, it was probably the best bet (c# 2.0 as a spec was not out i think) > > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > [email protected] > http://tidalwave.it - http://fabriziogiudici.it > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- http://mapsdev.blogspot.com/ Marcelo Takeshi Fukushima -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
