Re: malloc + 4??

From: Joona I Palaste (palaste_at_cc.helsinki.fi)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: 8 Apr 2004 18:00:03 GMT

Arthur J. O'Dwyer <ajo@nospam.andrew.cmu.edu> scribbled the following:
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Joona I Palaste wrote:
>> Richard Bos <rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> scribbled the following:
>> > Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
>> >> If I were a benevolent dictator imposing a universal language, I'd
>> >> pick something far more regular than English (though it's hard to beat
>> >> it for richness of vocabulary). I've heard that English is the only
>> >> language in which spelling bees are held (contests in which the object
>> >> is to correctly spell words after hearing them spoken).
>> >
>> > Possible, but that may also be because it is an amazingly bad way of
>> > holding a spelling contest. In the .nl and .be, we have our yearly
>> > "Groot Dictee der Nederlandse Taal", but that consists of a number of
>> > spoken _sentences_, which the candidates need to write down. That's much
>> > more realistic, IMO.

>> People here might know next to nothing about Finnish, but like it's
>> been said, Finnish is pronounced pretty much like it's written. I have
>> studied (at least cursorily) many languages, and I truly believe Finnish
>> gets the closest to a 1-1 correspondence between written glyphs and
>> spoken sounds.

> Closer even than Spanish? I think the only significant irregularities
> in Spanish pronunciation are what happens to 'c[aou]' versus 'c[ei]' and
> 'gu[ao]' versus 'gu[ei]'. But I'm a little out of it, so maybe I missed
> a couple. ;)

Well, like I said above, Finnish has *no* irregularities, if you don't
count "ng" and "nk". So it is closer to a 1-1 correspondence than
Spanish. 

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