Re: A BrSc a? & Nyuu Romaji

--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > >I can't quite tell if you realize that "Myanmar"
> is pronounced ['b@m@].
> >
> > And they say English spelling is evil?!?
>
> Complicated is one thing, complicated *and*
> irregular quite another.
> About 87% of English words have pronunciations that
> can be predicted
> by the (complicated) rules; the remaining 13% can't.
>  AFAIK
> 100% of Burmese words are predictable by their
> (complicated) rules.
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.

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...

> --
> John Cowan <jcowan@...>
> http://www.reutershealth.com
> I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,
> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.
> --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
-- Levi Tooker, nerd525@yahoo.com


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