OT: Orthography [Was: Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme]

[Mark Wilson]

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 04:51 PM, David Rush wrote:

> [snip]
>
> But Kanji are not, and no-one has ever even remotely claimed that Kanji
> are phonetic. In fact their main advantage is that they are *not* 
> phonetic.
> They were made that way by the Chinese so that all parts of the empire
> could communicate even though they spoke widely varying dialects.
>
> [snip]

I think that assuming both a controlling design and the reasons for 
that design are historically inaccurate as to the development of 
Chinese ideograms.

Regards,

Mark Wilson