OT: Orthography [Was: Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme]
Mark Wilson
mwilson13 at cox.net
Wed Oct 8 14:06:19 EDT 2003
On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 01:22 PM, Alexander Schmolck wrote:
> Pascal Bourguignon <spam at thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> Well, I would say that kanji is badly designed, compared to latin
>> alphabet. The voyels are composed with consones (with diacritical
>> marks) and consones are written following four or five groups with
>> additional diacritical marks to distinguish within the groups. It's
>> more a phonetic code than a true alphabet.
>
> Huh? You seem to be confused (BTW French is misleading here: it's
> vowels and
> consonants in English). *Kanji* are not phonetic, you seem to be
> talking about
> *kana*. And the blanket claim that Japanese spelling in kana is badly
> designed
> compared to say, English orthography seems really rather dubious to me.
>
The most linguistically advanced and best phonetic alphabet is Korean
hangul. See:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
Regards,
Mark Wilson
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