Re: Swedish alphabet [was: Re: Spanish alphabet]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, BP Jonsson wrote:

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> >and in Charya everybody
> >spells as they were taught by their parents.
>
> Is spelling like your parents free spelling?  Besides: having a dyslectic
> mother I feel strong sympathy for similarly afflicted Charyans! ;-)
>
Parent are seldom full-time teachers, so in practice, yes, it's free
spelling - and their are neighbours or perhaps even a priest in a local
temple if your parents can't teach you. Generally you first learn the
letters (by rote, just one after another), and then try to write down
what your parents/teachers recite. Afterwards, you learn by heart what
you wrote down.

> >On the other hand, you
> >won't catch a Chinese man of letters during the Sung dynasty adding
> >strokes on his own account ;-).
>
>  FWIW I read some people find modern "simplified" Sinographs harder to read
> because they reduce redundancy and distinctiveness.
>
So do I, but then I was never properly taught simplified characters -
when I was a second year student the teachers just expected us to know
them.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt