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Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, January 29, 2004, 20:50
Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:



> OR symbols could be stacked or combimed as in Korean.
> At any rate, any number over 100 symbols is just plain
> nuts, and I suspect 40 to 50 symbols would be plenty.

Given that English has approaching forty phonemes, I doubt your system is
going to be a syllabary! (Korean isn't one - it's an alphabet/featural code
rigged to look like Hanzi.)

                                                  Andreas