Re: Optimum number of symbols

Kendra wrote:
> That's true, but at least you can recognize things written, even if you
> pronounce them really strangely. With Japanese (since it's the only thing I
> can think of that I'd be remotely familiar with,) I'm lost on both counts.
Takes practice, but once you're used to it, you can usually figure out
what a word is supposed to be.  And usually when there is confusion, it
has to do with a phoneme that's missing, like, the l/r confusion, which
problem would as easily arise when writing in a different *alphabet* if
the alphabet lacked a certain distinction.

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