Patrick Andries writes: > De: "Don Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Although I admit to not quite understanding the motivation for this > > suggestion, > > Request by 22 MPs that want to modify the English spelling by law.
Note that french has always written "Cor�e (la R�publique de)": words that start by a "K" or contain a "k" are extremely rare in french. Almost all (if not all) french words with a "k" are imported from foreign orthographs, such as "koala (un)" (the small animal), "rack (un)" or "break (un)" or "week-end (un)" (imported from english), "kurde" or "Kurdistan" (transliteration from Arabic script, and similar phonetics). It's simply because french does not mark the difference of pronunciation between "c" and "k" (and uses instead the "ch" digraph to mark the greek letter khi, or "qu" to mark the Arabic "q"). There's no tradition in French for East-Asian languages, so they are written with the common french orthograph based or Latin or Greek radicals. I'm curious to know more about the history of "k" in English. I think it may have been imported from Nordic languages which had some common history with Uralic languages (which have spread in Eastern Europe from Finland to Hungria, and may persist today within minority languages of Southern Russia or in Siberia where Uralic peoples have been deported by Staline). Am I wrong here? __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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