Re: Uusisuom (phonemic????)

And Rosta scripsit:

> Brevity and clarity. "<a>" is shorter than "the letter 'a'" and clearer
> than simply "'a'", which could refer to a concept type, concept token,
> word type, word token, morpheme, phoneme or phone, and often will not be
> sufficiently clarified from context (as I can vouch for from numerous
> undergraduate essays).
Oh, well, undergraduates!  Can't expect THEM to get anything right!
:-)

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