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Skriven 2011-07-15 14:45:02 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 20840 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: The sad cynicisms of Mr. Bashe -- Chapter XXIV
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15 Jul 11 11:43, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>>>> You're mistaken. Bob and myself are in the majority of those
 RW>>>> here who have the ability to use a language that only needs 26
 RW>>>> characters to communicate effectively.

 MvdV>>> You misspelled "effectively".

 RW>> You just failed your first test as a spelling policeman.

 MvdV> Then let me spell it out for you, you omitted the "in" in
 MvdV> "ineffectively"

Had I wished to convey that thought, you might be correct. Since that is
not what I wanted to convey, it is incumbant upon you to read for
comprehension. You've failed yet another English test and should skip GO
and go directly to the English_Tutor echo for assistance with your English
reading comprehension problem.

 MvdV>>> Using accents, tremas and other add-ons is a far more effective
 MvdV>>> tool in helping to understand a language than to rely on
 MvdV>>> vocally passes on knowledge about the pronounciation of each
 MvdV>>> individual word.

 RW>> They're also not used in English because the spelling of a word is
 RW>> altered to give the user the proper pronunciation.

 MvdV> There is no way to know how to pronounce a word in English from the
 MvdV> spelling alone.

That is only true some of the time; when a foreign word is introduced to
the language.

 MvdV> How do I know that "ringer" rhimes on "singer", but "Ginger" does
 MvdV> not? No way to tell from the text alone.

Ring, Sing, Ging all rhyme with each other. See ENGLISH_TUTOR for further
English reading comprehension help.

 RW>>  i.e. I don't need to have a trema on the e in 'el' to know that it
 RW>> is pronounced as an l...thus no-el and not nole...

 MvdV> No, you just know how it is pronounced because someone told you.

No, I learned how to do that by studying English in my formative years.
That study begins when a child enters the 6th grade here. By the time you
reach the seventh grade, you are required to take English through each
year of middle school and each year of high school. That's about 6 years
of steady study of the language. Then there's college where they start
youu off again in English 101. And that's just a minor study.

 MvdV> If you had not been told, you would have no way of knowing how it
 MvdV> is pronounced. Languages that use tremas and accents do not have
 MvdV> that problem.

They, tremas, are for use by people who don't know how to know the
different ways to pronounce a word.

                R\%/itt


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