On: Why Lisp?

[trenchgun]

Damn, great vowel shift sucks.

Learning English in school was really weird.

Finnish as a language is almost entirely pronouncially composable. If you know how every single letter is pronounced, you can also pronounce any word.

In English there are all these silent letters, different pronounciations depending on the position of the letter etc. And the vowel shift: "a" written as "u", "ai" written as "i", "i" written as "e" etc.

[vram22 → trenchgun]

>Finnish as a language is almost entirely pronouncially composable.

So is Sanskrit. It is supposed be one of the most logically-designed languages.

>If you know how every single letter is pronounced, you can also pronounce any word.

Again, similar in Sanskrit. Taking it further, it is perfectly acceptable to make up words of your own by combining two or more words.