At least in Russian, the letters LOOK different. Trying to reprogram my brain to see an English letter and pronounce it completely differently did *not* happen.
Cyrillic would be a cakewalk compared to that.
For example, a word that sounds like "bee" is currently spelled "bithidh". They want to simplify it to "bidh". *g*
Bwaaaahahahaha!
Ooooh, cases are evil. Although with a good teacher, I finally understood most of them for Croatian (there were 7, iirc).
I still don't know beans about Old English cases. Although that was a translation class, so it's not like we were ever actually taught them; it was just brought up as we translated. ("Actually, xyz on the ending of that noun means the water was brought to him, not that he brought the water." *headdesk* Damn good thing Klein brought us tea and cookies during class. *g*)
Counting in Scottish was fun, too - they're base-20
OMG. I did not know that. OW. That's worse than cases!
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Date: 2006-08-22 04:59 am (UTC)Cyrillic would be a cakewalk compared to that.
For example, a word that sounds like "bee" is currently spelled "bithidh". They want to simplify it to "bidh". *g*
Bwaaaahahahaha!
Ooooh, cases are evil. Although with a good teacher, I finally understood most of them for Croatian (there were 7, iirc).
I still don't know beans about Old English cases. Although that was a translation class, so it's not like we were ever actually taught them; it was just brought up as we translated. ("Actually, xyz on the ending of that noun means the water was brought to him, not that he brought the water." *headdesk* Damn good thing Klein brought us tea and cookies during class. *g*)
Counting in Scottish was fun, too - they're base-20
OMG. I did not know that. OW. That's worse than cases!