From: Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:59:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509071940909111459h1847d595g844f645aed2329ff@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C890B1F2A8C2EC12D5383D7C@192.168.1.2>
that's a whole different problem, though.
your first problem was whether japanese would have some sort of
new or unique problem with an alphabet given the absence of certain
syllables (like shi) from the language. the answer is, of course, no:
the language would fall into either of the two extant conventions for
dealing with the syllable: always write "shi", or write "si" and just
change the pronunciation.
no written language stands independent of its pronunciation rules.
alphabets need a somewhat larger set of rules than syllabaries, but
that's true independent of language.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-11 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 8:40 xiangyu
2009-09-11 10:23 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-11 11:29 ` Alexander Sychev
2009-09-11 16:13 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-11 17:49 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-11 19:14 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <68F5914168759B188DF09A60@192.168.1.2>
2009-09-11 19:53 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-09-11 21:28 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-11 22:16 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-12 1:19 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-12 1:46 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-12 7:05 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-12 8:39 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-12 14:22 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-12 14:27 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-12 14:39 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <160F5E4B5D4057F12BB54C75@192.168.1.2>
2009-09-12 20:22 ` Nick LaForge
[not found] ` <C890B1F2A8C2EC12D5383D7C@192.168.1.2>
2009-09-11 21:59 ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2009-09-14 9:33 ` Paul Donnelly
2009-09-14 12:47 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-11 16:54 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-09-11 18:36 ` Eris Discordia
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