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scott wrote:
>>> Why?
>>
>> Because it's an entirely different language?
>
> If it's an entirely different language then why are half of English
> words almost the same as German?
Well, for example, according to my school French teacher, the French
word for "general" is... "general".
The thing is, the English pronounce it as /gɛnrəl/, but the French
pronounce it as /ʒɛnɛrɑːl/. Which is quite different, in spite of the
identical spelling.
I say again: the pronounciation rules are entirely different. (For
French, it seems that the rule is, approximately, "ignore all consonants
and just emit a series of slightly varying vowels".)
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