[Techtalk] Ubuntu menu falling apart

Kathryn Marks kathryn.linux at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 23:29:23 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > > On Thursday 02 September 2010 07:00:41 am Little Girl wrote:
>
> > >>> Wierd. (gee, that looks wierd, is is really spelt like that?).
>
> > >> Nope! This is one of the words that makes me wonder why they
> > >> pounded "I before E except after C" into us as children. (:
>
> > "... when the sound is 'EE'" only, as in Cheese, Ceiling, Piece,
> > but not Eight or Weird or Heir.
>
> You don't pronounce it "weerd" as in cheese or ceiling or piece?
>
> > As English is a bastard mix of just about every language on the
> > planet, I think we should be grateful that it has any rules at all.
>
> True, although it might be better if we'd just officially admit
> that it's a complete free-for-all. (:
>

You should try teaching it as a second language :)

Now that's fun.

I end up telling my students that English is just weird.


-- 
~Kathryn


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