Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform

Steve Cooney scripsit:

> Actually, Han characters arent a syllabary -
Indeed.  I was using Han as an example of how much people are able
to learn in order to read, not as an example of a syllabary.

> theyre an
> ideographic characterset for a whole bunch of
> monosyllabic languages.
In fact, Han is not ideographic nor are Sinitic languages
(and most especially Mandarin) monosyllabic.

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