Re: Question(s): creative spelling reform(s) of Techno-Greco-Latin-ish

J Y S Czhang said:
> In a message dated 2004:05:10 09:45:25 PM, mark@POLYMATHIX.COM writes:
>
>>How is 'ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system' *spelled* in
>>Mandarin? Or do they not use ISV?
>
>     AFAIK Using characters something like:
>
>         SHIP PULL[-ING/-ED] FAR-SOUND ALERT-METHOD DEVICE-SET
>
>     or a close phonemic representation/tranliteration of the English -
> somethin' like _s0-Nah_

So, in the interest of true internationalism, it seems like a pictographic
representation of this term that mapped semantically as something like

        SHIP PULL FAR-SOUND ALERT-METHOD DEVICE-SET

would be much more favorable to much of the world's population than any
kind of "spelling reform" of the various euroclonal forms of the term.
Right?


-- Mark