From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!wagner Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: Rational spelling Article-I.D.: utcsstat.261 Posted: Sun Jul 25 18:56:42 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 02:25:39 1982 References: utah-gr.489 The comment about 5th grade proficiency by grade 2 reminds me that, in hungary, there is essentially no class called spelling in public school (or elsewhere). My father could not understand what this discipline was about when he came here at the end of high school. The entire concept was foreign to him. Hungarian is spelled in an intuitive manner, freeing up much time and effort for more useful learning. Michael Wagner, UTCS