On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:34:41 +0100, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A study in Science (291 P.2165) found out that english speaking children
> has twice as much reading problems as italian speaking children of the
> same age. And about similar difference towards german and french. This
> could come from the fact that english has for 40 phonetics over 1100
> kinds of writing while italian has for 25 phonetics only 33 kinds of
> writing (sorry I hope I've translated it into correct terms). Also 9
> years old english children produce more reading error than 7 years old
> austrian children.
It's also more *fun* to express your thoughts/feelings in English or Perl than
in speech impediments like french, italian or python
I *do* like things like
my $sth = $dbh->prepare ("insert into $table values (@{[('?')x@f]})";
;-)
BTW. I realy like Schwietserdeutch, also more fun than German.
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