Greg Ewing writes: > I find it curious that pronunciation always seems to take > precedence over spelling in campaigns like this. Nowadays, > especially with the internet increasingly taking over from > personal interaction, we probably see words written a lot > more often than we hear them spoken. Why shouldn't we > change the pronunciation to match the spelling rather than > the other way around?
Because 90% of all people move their lips when reading. :-) More seriously, because almost nobody learns to read before learning to understand spoken language. Aural language is more primitive than written language. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
