tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 25 13:22:05 2008
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Re: idea for writing system
- From: Benjamin Barrett <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: idea for writing system
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:21:08 -0700
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Korean is phonemic. A few languages such as French and English deviate
quite radically from their intended phonetic writing systems. BB
On Jul 25, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Jonathan Webley wrote:
>> Lawrence John Rogers writes:
>> Well, all writing systems are phonetic.
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> Except for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, Chinese, and some others
> (such as
> numerals - 10, 11, 12 are definitely not phonetic).
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> Jon
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