Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Incidentally, this is probably why I had so much trouble learning to
> read and write. I kept expecting it to be logical, and it isn't. That
> really upset me.

I don't know if you've ever tried, but it sounds like you might find learning
another language easier than you think. Easier than english, perhaps!

> Oh, I'm not seriously suggesting that that's all you need to know to
> speak French. ;-) It just seems that the French use a lot of consonants
> that don't appear to do anything.

There are more silent consonants than in English. But the rules are simpler :)

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