Yes, its an odd thing. English is my second language, I learned it at school. Teaching of foreign languages here in Finland is based more on written than spoken language, and therefore I think it's usually relatively easy for me to write words correctly, easier than pronouncing them. However, lately I've noticed that sometimes I make "phonetic" spelling errors familiar to native English speakers, like writing "there" instead of "their". Perhaps my brain is starting to simulate native speakers, at least I can't say that I remember any grammatics anymore. Finnish language is one of the two languages in the world which have totally phonetic writing (Korean is the other), and therefore we have no problems with spelling, words are written as they are pronounced, while English is in the other extreme, with no clear rules for pronounciation. Yello's music certainly is like that, it's difficult to point any distinct structures in it which make it interesting, like it's usually the case with everyday hit music. It must sound like a lot of noises which are not connected, but once you learn to listen to it in the right way, it makes sense, and there's no "grammatic" or "spelling" in it. julz wrote:
Never thought of that but it seems true. In order for me to tell someone how to spell something i have to write it down first.
On Sep 20, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Laurens van Graft wrote:
Just last week, I was having a discussion with my wife regarding my inability to spell correctly, and the main difference that we found, was due to our early childhood. we were both read to a lot, however, she also did a lot more reading than I did. the consensis is that she can see the words when she writes them, whearas I 'HEAR' hear them, and write them as I think they sound.
-- Jussi Salmi http://staff.cs.utu.fi/~jussalmi/