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Talk:World History Lecture Eight (view source)
Revision as of 19:47, March 17, 2009
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::::: You're welcome. English (as I think I said in my revised version) does have a large phonetic element, but less so than many (most?) other languages that use sound-based written elements. Italian or Hebrew or Arabic or Russian is pretty close to perfectly phonetic, which I think is what is meant by describing a language as phonetic. Personally I'm a great lover of puns and wordplay, so I'm quite happy by all the irregularity. [[User:DeniseM|DeniseM]] 13:31, 17 March 2009 (EDT)
::::: You're welcome. English (as I think I said in my revised version) does have a large phonetic element, but less so than many (most?) other languages that use sound-based written elements. Italian or Hebrew or Arabic or Russian is pretty close to perfectly phonetic, which I think is what is meant by describing a language as phonetic. Personally I'm a great lover of puns and wordplay, so I'm quite happy by all the irregularity. [[User:DeniseM|DeniseM]] 13:31, 17 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::: The larger language (in terms of usage) of Chinese is not phonetic. Also, I'm surprised to hear you claim that Hebrew is phonetic. It traditionally lacked vowels!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 15:47, 17 March 2009 (EDT)