Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

[Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

> lots of romance languages have exactly that characteristic, though
> (maybe other languages, too). see C and G in italian. "ci" is simply
> pronounced "correctly" as "chi".

That's true but isn't exactly the same thing. "Irregularly" pronounced
combinations are still valid combinations. I'd say the universal example
for languages that are written in Latin alphabet or a variation thereof
would be the (notorious) 'fgsfds.' It's an invalid combination because
there is _no_ pronunciation at all--except 'figgis-fiddis' which is a
really recent, and ground-breaking, invention ;-)

With Japanese syllabaries one cannot produce unpronounceable sequences.
Nonsense, yes, but nothing that cannot be uttered.

--On Friday, September 11, 2009 15:53 -0400 Anthony Sorace
<anothy@gmail.com> wrote:

> lots of romance languages have exactly that characteristic, though
> (maybe other languages, too). see C and G in italian. "ci" is simply
> pronounced "correctly" as "chi".
>