Re: Mixed writing systems (WAS: Newbie says hi)

> >Also, there's nothing to say that an alphabetic writing system has to be
> >entirely phonetic (indeed, they practically never are). Different
meanings
> >could be distinguished by silent letters, empty diacritics or variant
Do you mean like the difference between Si' (yes) and si (if) in Spanish?
(I'm not sure I got those right... I don't really speak Spanish myself.

Jake