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[Python-Dev] Why is soundex marked obsolete?
Eric S. Raymondesr@thyrsus.com
Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:17:53 -0500
Tim Peters <tim.one@home.com>:> If that were true, the English-speaking researchers would have declared> victory 120 years ago <wink>. But English pronunciation is *notoriously*> difficult to predict from spelling, partly because English is the Perl of> human languages.Actually, according to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Linguistics, this isan urban myth. The orthography of English is, in fact, quiteconsistent; it looks much more wacked out than it is because themaddening irregularities are concentrated in the 400 most commonlyused words.The situation is much like that with French verb forms -- most Frenchverbs have a very regular inflection pattern, but the twenty or soexceptions are the most commonly used ones. In fact it's a generalrule in language evolution that irregularities are preserved in commonforms and not rare ones -- in the rare ones they get forgotten.American personal names are are problem precisely because they sometimesdo *not* have English orthography.-- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> "...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."[...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.] -- (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD),
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