Re: Chinese writing systems
| From: | Mat McVeagh <matmcv@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 4, 2002, 3:30 |
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>From: Tim May <butsuri@...>
> >
>One related point - the more phonetically your writing system records
>speech, the faster old texts become incomprehensible.
>
On just this point - by the same token, the less you update the phoneticness
of your writing system the faster present-day texts become irregular.
Mat
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