[OT] American versus British spelling and pronunciation(was:Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous)

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 07:14:30PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.278.1331251506.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
[...]
> I've heared that in countries like China which have a tonal language,
> the percentage of people with "perfect pitch" is incredibly high -
> something like 90-99%. Whereas in other places, like the US, it's
> *way* below half the population (something like 10%, IIRC).
[...]

I'm not sure if there's a direct correlation though... because Chinese
tones are not pitch-perfect; they are relative to a reference pitch
which differs from person to person.


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