Re: An Alphagraphic Language

But a Chinese reader can still make an informed
(though by no means always correct) GUESS at both
pronunciation and meaning.  Eg. "It looks like zhen2
so probably something like zhen2 or zen2 maybe chen2
and it's got the the "bird" radical so it must be some
kind of bird . . .

Adam

--- Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> The same way a Chinese reader does.  By looking it
> up in the dictionary.  The advantage is that the 25
> or 30 characters would have a defined alphabetical
> order so it would be posisble to have a well-ordered
> dictionary.  The dictionary would probably have to
> resort to a phonetic alphabet to describe the
> pronunciation.
>
> --gary
>
> Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
> Gary Shannon wrote:
> > Any thoughts?
>
> How would you figure out what word an unfamiliar
> letter-pattern is?

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