Brian Hill wrote:

CRI had a Chinese learning program. I heard it not too long ago. Years ago I
learned some Finn on YLE. I'm part Finn and wanted to surprise my Grandpa.
Boy was that a hard language.

It's supposedly related to Hungarian somewhere in the dark misty past.
The beauty of those languages is that it's a phonetic alphabet. Once
you know what the letters are, you can pretty well say any word you
can read. Understanding them is the harder work.

With all those carets (sp?) or umlauts above most vowels, you may get
a total of over thirty letters. It's a small price to pay not to have
to have all those stupid 'laws' in English grammar, most of which
aren't rules at all.


Here's mike's law:


I before E except after C but NOT usually!





leisurely neighbour mike