Re: English notation
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 29, 2001, 17:37 |
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At 18:59 2001-06-28 -0600, Tom Tadfor Little wrote:
>If your language goes with a conculture that has a long history of writing
>and contact with other languages, especially spanning a period of sound
>change, an orthography that even approaches a phonetic ideal may be quite
>unrealistic.
Indeed. Sahlab uses a highly defective script where some sounds are
written with the same letter in a rather unsystematic way. Distinguishing
diacritics have been invented by philological nitpickers but are little
used by others. This was modelled on the state of affairs in Middle Persian.
/BP 8^)>
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