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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] In depth SUV scientific based analysis (was TotallyOT
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 09:19:28 -0400
Your depth of knowledge here is rather amazing.

Chuck Norcutt


On 5/27/2011 5:29 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Believe me, Boris, if we were inventing English now, we wouldn't do it the
> way it is (although we would, of course, do it differently from American
> English).
>
> Bulgarian has the advantage of using an alphabet to suit the spoken language
> which was custom-designed by Byzantine Greek missionaries. Until then there
> was no Slav written language (whether Bulgarian, Polish, Russian etc), so
> they were starting with a clean sheet (of parchment).  The missionaries
> needed a written language to translate the Bible, and started with their own
> Greek alphabet as the basis, with characters added (invented or borrowed
> from Hebrew) for sounds in Bulgarian which were not present in Greek.
> That's why the alphabet contains characters to suit every sound.
>
> And that is why Polish has so many 'sz' and 'cz' type combinations - because
> the missionaries evangelising in that area were from Rome, not Byzantine,
> and used the Latin alphabet as their starting point, adding a z to modify
> the pronunciation of letters existing in Latin to suit sounds in Polish.
> Worse, there was no 'v' in Latin, which results in some awful looking words
> to a native English speaker - wszystko jest możliwe, for example (which
> might even look awful to a native Bulgarian speaker). For this I blame the
> Irish. Specifically St Virgil (Feargal) Bishop of Salzburg!
>
> Piers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willie Wonka [mailto:alienspecimen@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 May 2011 01:48
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] In depth SUV scientific based analysis (was TotallyOT
>
> --snip
>
> The Bulgarian alphabet, at times wrongly called Cyrillic, has enough letters
> to reproduce all the sounds in the language and you never ever need to learn
> spelling.  Everything is spelled the way it is pronounced.  Why dont you add
> additional letters to the English alphabet (for example), make everything
> easy, really
>
> --snip
>
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