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Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Thursday, January 29, 2004, 20:50
--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:


> >I came up with about 70 to 80 syllables.
> First of
> >all, a syllabary doesn't have to be precisely
> >phoenetic, nor does it have to represent every
> >possible dialect of the language.
> >
>
> But it should do.  A monodialectal syllabary
> rather defeats the
> object.  To some it would be just as unreadable
> as English now.

I guess it would help to know what the object is
- I seem to have missed that! I'm not sure why
we'd necessarily WANT to represent every possible
lect's pronunciation variation. I should think
the resulting syllabary would be too large to be
useful. And those of us that don't have certain
sounds or possibilities will simply forget what
all the extraneous symbols are for, for want of
use.

Padraic.


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