Re: unnatural languages

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

On Mar 10, 10:35 pm, hru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin) wrote:

French is almost completely regular,

??? French is one of the few languages that has "spelling bees"!

Yes, French is a regular one-way-street. Spelling to pronunciation is
quite easy, I mostly guessed it from seeing some French and hearing some
French, independently! What I had to learn when I started studying is to
detect certain inflections that are relevant to pronunciation.
--
Oliver C.
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