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[Sean Kelly]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:gpbpib$2eek$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>> What do you mean with pseudo-phonetic?
>>>
>>> How do you pronounce the first letter of "I"? And the first letter of 
>>> "Incredible"? That doesn't seem to have any logic! :-P
> 
> Yea, that's exactly what I mean. English pretends to be phonetic but really 
> isn't (at least not anymore). But I never truly saw just how non-phonetic it 
> was until I learned the Japanese -kana alphabets. Those alphabets really 
> make English's claim of being phonetic look ridiculous.

To be fair, English stems from Germanic, and pronunciation has changed 
tremendously over the years.  Chaucer is nearly incomprehensible to most 
people, and it's just in Middle English.