Re: Optimum number of symbols

Mike S. wrote:
>From: "And Rosta" <a-rosta@...>
> >
> > On another point, I would in a conlang want to reject a phonemic script
> > because I reject the very notion of the phoneme.
> >
> > --And.
>
>I anticipated that someone would challenge me on the favorability
>of phonemic scripts, but I am taken aback by the rejection of the very
>notion of phoneme.  Why, or in exactly what way, do you reject the
>notion of phonemes?
Perhaps more relevant to this thread, rejecting the notion of the phoneme
can hardly entail denying the possibility and practicality of phonemic
scripts, in the usual sense of the term, since we see such in use around us
every day.

                                                    Andreas

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