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Article #911Re: Change the software or the alphabet?
From: g.l.sicherman
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1987 19:48
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1987 19:48
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> Finnish is written as it is spoken. Every letter has only one way to > pronounce it. If you drop letters off, how would you write words > containing those letters? In English we use combinations like "th" and "ch." It works fine unless you insist on phonetic spelling. > This all is (partially) true for several languages (e.g. Swedish and German). > KEEP YOUR NASTY FINGERS OUT OF OUR ALPHABET AND FIX YOUR PROGRAMME(R)S!! This seems awfully possessive. He who steals my alphabet, steals trash. I can always invent a new one! By the way, I have yet to see a standard that accommodates the Seuss postzetals: yuzz, wum, um, humph, ... --- "No matter where you go, there you are ... except that when you're on the phone, you're nowhere." --Ollaroo MacNoonzai -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...!ihnp4!odyssey!gls
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