Yeah that’s what I’m guessing.
PhD in aerospace engineering from Wallonia.
Docteur ingénieur en aérospatiale de Wallonie.
Docteur indjenieur e-n areyospåciå del Walonreye.
Yeah that’s what I’m guessing.
Where’s the rabbit though?
Looks like it does the job perfectly. Thanks!
Oh, I know the English rules very well, and those of French, and those of Dutch, and those of Portuguese, and those of German.
Of all the orthographies that I know, French and English are the dumbest by far, because they are the most conservative. It’s not because you struggled to learn that you should feel superior to others. Pride in a dumb orthographic system can only be understood through elitism.
I know that the words are different and have different meanings, and I know that some speakers pronounce them differently so I wouldn’t change the orthography now.
My point is: let’s not be so conservative that orthography has to be fixed forever. If they become homophones, the orthography could change and they could be homonyms like so many others exist.
You know, they’ve got a very valid point. Language is spoken before it is written and it changes with time. I’ve got the opinion that orthography should be subordinate to pronunciation. If ‘then’ and ‘than’, historically pronounced differently, become homophone, they could be written the same.
I’m tired of English and French orthographies being so conservative, writing words like they were pronounced hundreds of years ago…
In Belgium, we have the same thing. The explanation is that the highest point of the country is at 694 m, so they built 6 m of stairs to reach 700 m.