Re: languages in reverse

In a message dated 6/17/2007 8:30:47 AM Central Daylight Time,
markjreed@mail.com writes:


> At least in Hofstadter's work, it's spelled "hsilgnE" (stevo: you
> forgot to reverse the "ng") but nevertheless pronounced [SIlg'NI] ~
> [Sil'NI].  That is,  both the spelling and the phonetics are reversed.
> Which makes explaining the spelling system quite difficult. :)
>
Thanks for pointing out the typo.
The spelling system is no more difficult to explain in hsilgnE than it is in
English.  In fact, they are exactly equivalent.  Maybe it seems more difficult
because we are so used to many of the conventions in English spelling.
Seeing them through hsilgnE makes their bizarreness more evident.

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