Re: What is an alphabet? Re: Optimum number of symbols

In a message dated 05/30/2002 08.59.59 AM, pavel_iosad@MAIL.RU writes:

>> In dictionaries I saw Cyr-|xuj| for |hui|, but in public it would be quite
>> insulting :-))
>
>The point!
>
>> Moreover, isn't it pronounced smth. like [xw@I]?
>
>I was taught either that or [x(_w)QI]. Czhang?
    ::startled look:: 0_o? You gotta be kidding... asking me? I am even more
confused than you two Russians and John Cowan ;)
    Over long-distance telephone lines, I asked my father and he pronounced
it somewhat like [x_wQI] as far as I can tell, but don't take that as
authoritative as his is the South East Asian variety of Mandarin and he is
not at all fluent (and I even worse. And I am not just being humble either...)

Hanuman Zhang {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n  dZahN/

~§~

_Ars imitatur Naturam in sua operatione._ <from Latin> = "Art is the
imitation of Nature in her manner of operation." " The most beautiful order
is a heap of sweepings piled up at random." ~ Heraclitus, c. 500 BCE

~§~ jinsei to iu mono wa, kinchou na geijyutsu to ieru deshou ~§~
<from Japanese> = lit. "one can probably say that 'life' is a precious
artform")