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Martin 'Lolly' Lorenz Date: Thu Aug 19, 1999 7:22 am Subject: Re: sign writing principles? | |
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What you, Judy A. Kegl wrote to me. received Thu, Aug 19 at 04:46 CEST |> In response to Martin, |> |> (note: Judy Kegl is in Managua. She's the linguist, not me. But, I teach |> SW.) |> |> I do not know which has more symbols, SW or, for example, english. The |> alphabet has 26 letters, but obviously there exist rules to make a lot more |> phonemes than that. It is a completely arbitrary system that requires [...] what you tell me is a very new aspect to me i guess i will have to think about it for a while. could you eventually point me to any linguistical ressource (online or in a journal/book) that can help me to further investigate your point of view thanks a lot for your help -- Martin "Lolly" Lorenz Microsoft, I think, is fundamentally an evil company. - JAMES H. CLARK https://hasiti.mir.at/~martin the more daring thing mostly is to question the known than to explore the unknown |
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