On 7/13/2011 0:54, Invisible wrote:
>>> The most logical aspect of English is the pronounciation.
>>
>> It's also the only language I know where the accent (as in stress)
>> moving from syllable to syllable changes the parts of speech of the word.
>
> There's an urban myth that in Chinese, the pitch of the word dictates which
> word it is...

The same sound has up to four different tones possible. That doesn't make it 
unambiguous, tho. For each sound+tone, there's still dozens of meanings you 
need to disambiguate, even if it's written.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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