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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: English is rough
Date: 22 Oct 2009 16:45:38
Message: <4ae0c472$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   I also assume that, unlike me, you know how to pronounce all those words?-)

I think so. Oddly enough, the really long words are the ones with obvious 
pronunciation. Probably because nobody pronounces them without having 
consciously learned how to pronounce them. (Modulo spelling quirks like 
"psychology" coming from greek letters and such.) While they're not easy to 
pronounce, they are pronounced how a native speaker would expect from the 
spelling.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


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From: Saul Luizaga
Subject: Re: English is rough
Date: 22 Oct 2009 19:26:46
Message: <4ae0ea36$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/english-poem.txt
> 
>   Sedulously eschew obfuscatory and tautologous hyperverbosity, prolixity
> and sesquipedalian loquaciousness, espouse elucidation.
> 
damn...


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