[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: Semantic Error?

[Måns Rullgård]

Erik Slagter said:
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 23:48 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> > 	No, it's 'ou' vs. 'o': compute_mb_neighbours(). Now you see
>> > 	why British English is so suboptimal.
>>
>> It's still much more efficient than French.
>
> Interesting, because many words in English are either exactly copied
> from French words or with slight alterations. Also at least French has a
> very strong relation between written and spoken language and a whole lot
> less exceptions.

In an average piece of French text, how many words have four or so silent
letters at the end?  How many English words look like this?

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