Re: The Ability of Abbreviation

Why are you using <y> for /T/ and /D/? And what is the <c/>?

Tristan

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Padraic Brown wrote:

> Am 11.12.01, Cheng Zhong Su yscrifef:
>
> > As English words are too long,
>
> Wl, al u hv 2 do is spl ym c/ fwr ltrz. C? Ds ys
> mk it ezr 4 ye? Prps frm now on, we shd al uz ys
> ezr splN 4 ye. OK?
>
> > sometimes we simplify
> > them by abbreviation. We have said four hundred
> > ‘phonetic types’ still have some room to reduce words'
> > size, what will happen with 26 letters? In fact, some
> > mistakes are already there:
> > For instance what’s a CD? The answer could be various:
>
> Yt is y we hv cntxt.
>
> P
> --
> Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.
>

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