En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> Still, there are outrageous spellings like _graentz_ /grans/ "mountain
> range", where both the "e" and the "t" are silent without any
> justification.
>
No worse than French "compte", where the "p" has been added only to make it
look like Latin :)) (English "debt" is to put in the same boat :)) ).
> What's truly bad about this orthography is that manages to cause
> massive
> ambiguity while mapping 22 phonemes onto 25 letters* plus a couple of
> dozen
> digraphs.
Now that's indeed different from Maggel, which has probably something like 90+
phonemes for 17 letters (but dozens and dozens of digraphs :) ).
The really unforgiveable part is, of course, the
> aforementioned
> unsystematic indication of /e/. It doesn't even avoid identical
> spellings
> where it could; city name _Mrd_ /mr=d/ and _mrd_ /merede/ "rivercourse
> in
> delta".
>
LOL.
> There's random apostrophes thrown in too. Eg _M'cha_ /meSa/,
> _Zzew'ten_
> /sevten/.
>
The Star Trek effect? :)))
Christophe.
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