Re: Optimum number of symbols

On Thu, 23 May 2002 15:58:43 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:

>Mike S. scripsit:
>
>> That's like asking why English orthography isn't thrown away. It's
>> the historical momentum, nothing more.  It doesn't mean that English
>> orthography isn't a disaster.
>
>Harping on Mongolian again, even once you get past the massive ambiguity
>of the letters, it's far more of a disaster than English:  for
>|miqan| 'meat', you must read /maxa/; for |aghula| 'mountain', /u:la/.
As gramma used to say, "count your blessings" :)