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Here you are Masha

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learnandsay · 20/02/2013 10:00

How about this for spelling reform?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21505114

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Tiggles · 20/02/2013 10:27

Confused I'd be done for if they ever brought that in!
I read layk as lake
seym as the beginning of seymour
kwowt as k -wow -t
and I definitely don't say a 'g' in the middle of exit...

Tiggles · 20/02/2013 10:30

Can I ask a question though Masha
I quote from the article "Bell grew up speaking Lithuanian and Russian. When she took up English at 14 she thought "how do they put up with this?" The illogicality of English spelling holds children back in Anglophone countries and makes life tough for visitors, she argues. "The reason why Finland shines in education is because their children have to spend very little time learning to read and write. It is completely phonetic." "

How does that fit then that all the Finnish people I know, of whom there are lots, are all pretty much fluent in English and have learnt to read and write it, despite it being completely unlike Finnish?

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