Re: caselike gender system

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:28:06 +0000, Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:

>That frame thingy around the characters looks very nice.  The
>glosses don't line up with the heading "meaning" on the characters
>page, though.
Thanks. Which browser are you using?

>Also, in your introduction you say written Chinese is a "pure example
>of an ideographic language" which just isn't true - there's a large
>phonetic component.  See e.g. http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm
Actually, I've seen that page before. I thought that since there is one
meaning per character, it is ideographic, regardless of the character's
construction. But I'll change that.

...?

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