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In article <TMB.91May22102757@volterra.ai.mit.edu> tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
> 
> In article <HOLLEY.91May21183931@fog.sono.uucp> holley@sono.uucp (Greg Holley) writes:
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>    Do you also want to force the Spanish, French, Dutch, and Danish
>    (who already have too many vowels for their alphabet) to use the
>    "standard 26 letter alphabet"?
> 
> No country can be "forced" to give up their orthograpy.
> 
> In any case, I believe most dialects of English already have more
> vowels than any of the languages you mention (certainly more than
> Spanish). English has somewhere around 14 vowels.

I meant the parenthetical remark to apply only to Danish, which seems
to have more vowels than all the rest of the Western European languages
put together (either that, or it's a tonal language :-) ).  As far as
I can tell, Danish packs five vowels where any sane language would have
only three, and then records them with a mystic code understood only by
the true descendants of Vikings.  The orthography is already so screwy
that you have to memorize the pronunciations of half the words (as if
any non-Dane could ever hope to pronounce them).  If you took away the
strange letters, even the Danes would probably find it hard to speak
Danish.

Ob. German:  Has anyone noticed that the quality of Doener Kebabs
in Berlin has improved over the last six years?


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