> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:29:41 +0000 (GMT) > From: John Logsdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: no support w/2.5 kernel installed. Spelling, no big deal 4 me > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi all > > I have been following this seriously off-topic thread for a little while > now and can't resist a few words. Indulge me please! 2.5 has been > forgotten a long time ago.
Well, yes all the stuff about spelling is a bit off-topic. :) The development versus stable release topic isn't, even if it has already been hashed and rehashed by others. I suppose we could carry on our discussion without involving the rest of the list, if people prefer. > Whether spelling is important or not, I guess only in English could this > question be asked. I believe spelling is very important but my kids don't > seem to agree. There are two ways of working with language - visual and > aural. Bad spellers tend to be the latter and good spellers the former. > Learning another language is generally easier if you are visual but > complete fluency is then more difficult. I would say that I'm visual. > This is particularly visible in continental Europe where words like Centre > are written the US way rather than the British way which is of course > derived from French. Of course when the US joins the EU - or more likely > takes it over - there may be some justification for these errors .... > :-))) :-p > So we are stuck with at least two (written) versions of essentially the > same language, which makes it very difficult for non-native speakers (of > either version) to get it right. Massive credit to all that do - and in > some cases write better than the natives. I've come across plenty of non-native speakers with FAR better grammar and spelling than many of the native speakers I've encountered. But then I've encountered plenty of unintelligible non-native speakers too. > As Webster must have realised, it is impossible to make English phonetic > and not too many people speak Esperanto, mainly because it has no > geographical, economic or political base. If you want a phonetic language > there are many around - from a European tradition, my favourite is Italian > which is contemporary, based on Latin, the language of music and is > wonderful to hear and speak but I recognise that there are many other > traditions and candidates. My favorite phonetic language would have to be Japanese, but mostly only because I speak a bit and had to endure years of study to become even half-fluent. Reading & writing Japanese is another story (I can't remember how many thousands of different characters there are)... > As I said - seriously off-topic:)! Well, this entire exchange is now definitely off-topic, so I promise to stop with the whole language thing once I finish this message! :) -- Jarod Wilson, RHCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A wise man once said nothing at all" -- -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
