I enjoy looking at paintings, but I have no desire to paint. That impulse isn't in me, and I wouldn't be any good at it without it - Arika Okrent

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I enjoy looking at paintings, but I have no desire to paint. That impulse isn't in me, and I wouldn't be any good at it without it

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About Arika Okrent

Arika Okrent is an American linguist, known especially for her book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, the result of five years of research on the subject of constructed languages.

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We were also spelling that oo sound as ou, because that's how they spell that sound in French, so it made sense that moon had that spelling but then the spelling didn't make sense anymore after the sound shifted, then it shifted again, but in some places it didn't
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No one takes as many pages as English to explain all the exceptions, all the irregularities, and it's really the matching of the spelling to the pronunciation that causes a huge headache for learners of the language
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