[84869] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: idea for writing system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Barrett)
Fri Jul 25 16:22:16 2008
From: Benjamin Barrett <gogaku@ix.netcom.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <E1KMTIA-0003Zd-Sj@chain.digitalkingdom.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:21:08 -0700
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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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