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Re: Not phonetic but IN CONCLUSION

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Sunday, April 18, 2004, 14:21
Mark R:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:46:17PM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > > An orthography such that the spelling can be fully > > predicted from the pronunciation is not practicable. > > Really? Doesn't Lojban have such an orthography? > > Or did you mean "is not practicable for English"?
"is not practicable for a language with many dialects, such as English" (for the reasons discussed earlier in the thread). --And.