[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Speaking 'properly' & the French

[Marita Jan]

--- justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> bboyminn wrote:
> > 
> > I hate to trash the French and their language, but I've never seen
> > another language where words are pronounce so differently than they
> > are spelled. What is the purpose of all those letters in a word if not
> > to lend a clue as to how the word is pronounced? 
> ><snip>


You know, I can't hear a discussion about the French language without
hearing John Cleese's French taunter.  "Your mother was a hamster and your
father smelled of elderberries!  Now go away or we shall taunt you a
second time!"

Sorry.....just had a "Grail" moment....I'll quit before I start feeling
oppressed.


MJ

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