Spelling WASRe: Optimum number of symbols,

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> What I find funny is the incorporation in the lexical noun= >  of
> what in French are articles (like "larivi=E8" for "river", from "la
> rivi=E8re", "dlo" for "water", from "de l'eau", "l=F2t" for "other" - I
> suppose "youn" means "one" - from "l'autre")
To a first approximation, all Haitian Creole French mass nouns begin with
"d" and all count nouns with "l".

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