Hallo tracer,
On Sunday, October 17, 1999, 10:15:12 AM, tracer wrote:
Alexander>> Don't know Esperanto, but think you're wrong here:-) the first
Alexander>> "a" above should sound similar to German "Ja" (that is, as it's
Alexander>> common in many Latin-based languages, should be written as
Alexander>> two-dotted "a"). What for the second "a" above, it's pronounced
Alexander>> exactly as the English letter "R" is called, that is, "AR":-) So
Alexander>> either Esperanto is not so fonetic you think it is or you haven't
Alexander>> got the proper pronunciation:-))
t> Try Arabic, you can spell almost any sound in it...
t> I donot speak it but its an extreemly flexible way to make any sound
t> even if you still cannot read the result (g) and I remember for my
t> workpermit I needed about 10 minutes before my Dutch name was properly
t> translated so it sounded the same...
Arabic is 100% phonetic, we used to write dictations and hand't ever
heard the words before... 26 letters, plus three "short vowels" (often
not written except in classic texts), plus one stop-voice-marker
(hamza). Problem is, they have only three vowels: a, i, o (pronounce
these the German way), no P (except in the Urdu version) and so on.
Every script has drawbacks when you want to use it for another
language. ;-)
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Cheers,
Thomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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