Re: Linguistics (was 2.5 kernel & spelling)

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.


-- 
Michael Knepher <[email protected]>



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