There's a story about an ultra-pedantic physics teacher who asked a group of seniors "Have you finished the experiments with the pendula?" and received the reply "Yes sir, and we are now sitting on our ba doing our sa!"

But I don't know of any on-line guide for MMX. There's a friend of mine who's playing it; if you have any specific problems, I can pass the questions on to him.

But I must admit I write and say pendula, ballistae, formulae, viri (not viruses). Maybe because I've been studying Latin for few years now ...

English is a great language to communicate in because there are so few conjugations and declensions, and the word gender is not a problem because just about everything not specifically related to males and females can be treated as neuter. But the finer details are a b*****, and deducing how to pronounce words from how they are spelled is a nightmare. For example, the combination of letters "ough" can be pronounced eight different ways, depending on what the rest of the letters in the word are. There's no way to work it out – you just have to learn the words and their pronunciation.

playing with languages is a wonderful thing!

In 1931, Noel Coward put on a play called "Cavalcade". There was a certain amount of controversy about this play, and some critics thought it would be a flop. Apparently, there was a lot of discussion about it in the newspapers, discussing the various different opinions, and some of the discussion got quite heated. When the play proved to be a hit at the box-office, it was considered newsworthy, and there was a story about a Frenchman who crossed the Channel to England, and saw a headline in a newspaper that read "Cavalcade Pronounced Success". So he turned around and sailed back to France . . .

I agree completely with the last paragraph -- in English, it's very easy to tell others what do you mean so they can understand. And it's very hard to do it right.

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