On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 09:26, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:29:41 +0000 (GMT) > > From: John Logsdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: no support w/2.5 kernel installed. Spelling, no big deal 4 me > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > As Webster must have realised, it is impossible to make English phonetic > > and not too many people speak Esperanto, mainly because it has no > > geographical, economic or political base. If you want a phonetic language > > there are many around - from a European tradition, my favourite is Italian > > which is contemporary, based on Latin, the language of music and is > > wonderful to hear and speak but I recognise that there are many other > > traditions and candidates. > > My favorite phonetic language would have to be Japanese, but mostly only > because I speak a bit and had to endure years of study to become even > half-fluent. Reading & writing Japanese is another story (I can't > remember how many thousands of different characters there are)... > Not to beat a horse that should have been dead quite some time ago a little more, but please try to be more accurate in your use of "phonetic". Every spoken language is "phonetic", being based on "phones", the smallest discrete sounds used in a language. Phonetic orthography is a completely different issue.
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