Re: Optimum number of symbols

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/.

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