Minoan is an IE language?/Sound Equivalence

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/16/01 8:05:01 PM Mountain Standard Time, X99Lynx at aol.com
writes:

> This may explain why there are twice as many identified dyslexics in
> English-speaking cultures as in countries with less complex languages,

-- it's not the complexity of the English language that's the problem, it's
the horrors of English orthography.  English spelling was regularized just
when the language was going through a major series of sound-shifts.

As originally pronounced, back in the 16th century, English spelling was
simple and highly phonetic.