Re: AAR Battle of Kessel
From: Mikko Kurki-Suonio <maxxon@s...>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 17:46:01 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Re: AAR Battle of Kessel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
> Jein. I'm assuming some spelling reform within a few hundred years
> (Official Deletion of the umlaut).
Why don't we assume an Official Deletion of all the complicated foreign
languages? It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
much
easier if everyone just speaks the common tongue... er, English.
It may come as a surprise to some people, but "Mika Häkkinen", "Mika
Hakkinen" and "Mika Haekkinen" are all completely valid names,
pronounced
very differently and only one of them is an F1 driver.
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