Re: Optimum number of symbols

>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Optimum number of symbols
>Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 19:16:51 -0400
>
>Jake X wrote:
> > For example, the
> > word "katakana," the name of one of its alphabets, is written
>ka-ta-ka-n-a.
>
>ka-ta-ka-na, actually.  ka-ta-ka-n-a would be romanized as katakan'a,
>which would be a syllabic /n/ between the last two /a/'s.
Really, for some reason I thought the only [n] in Japanese was sylabic.
Well, shows what I know about the language. My only knowledge of Japanese is
from my mother, a technical translator of it, and I only briefly tried to
learn the alphabet at one point. I guess I shouldn't try to sound so
knowledgable about everything. For everyone who reads my posts, take
everything I write with a grain of salt because I'm too tired to imbue it
all with the grain of doubt that's always there.

Jake


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