Re: Optimum number of symbols

En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

>
> Indeed.  To take an anglophone example, it is better that some writers
> must wonder "Hmm, is the word spelled |theft| or |feft|?", than that
> many readers must wonder "Hmm, is this word 'lord' or 'laud'?"
> It may actually be rational to recognize *more* distinctions than any
> one dialect makes for this reason.
>
Yep, for recognisability. Despite what Mike S. says, I know by experience that
a pure phonemic system would be usually most confusing, and that quite easily.

Christophe.

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