Re: A BrSc a? & Nyuu Romaji

Levi Tooker wrote:
>Mark Rosenfelder has compiled a series of rules that
>give the pronunciation of a word about 85% of the
>time:
>
>http://www.zompist.com/spell.html
>
>The rules are long and somewhat complicated. I made a
>script in HyperCard that carried out the rules, and
>even after taking all day to program, it still made
>quite a few errors.
I can see how that might work, say 85% of the time.  How would it
distinguish "great" from "meat"? Or "cough, through, thorough, enough,
thought" etc.
>
>Maybe someday I'll try to make a series of rules that
>predict the spelling of a word from it's
>pronunciation. Too bad I accidentally deleted
>HyperCard...
I can't see how this would work at all.  [mit] meat, mete, meet etc etc.

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