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Re: Writing as a Conservitizing Agent in Language

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Sunday, March 4, 2007, 0:10
In a message dated 3/3/2007 8:47:42 AM Central Standard Time,
yukatado@HOTMAIL.COM writes:


> Unless someone tells you how ? (Chinese character for "Mountain") is > pronounced, it tells you nothing by itself how it might be pronounced - and >
[The question mark should be U5c71.] This is precisely why hanzi can be used for different languages and dialects without regard to how they are pronounced. stevo

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Leon Lin <leon_math@...>