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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Better writing form
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In article <3ha19b$ppj@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
           etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk "Edmund Grimley-Evans" writes:
> > >- there would be a high correlation (but not necessarily 100%)
> > >between writing and sound.
> > [...]
> > >- the writing system would only include ASCII characters. No
> > >diacritical marks.
> > 
> > These two contradict one another, don't you think?  What will happen
> > when you run out of letters?  Digraphs (and trigraphs and so forth)
> > make reading harder.
> 
> Come on Ivan, he didn't say anything about "letters". There are about
> 96 characters available in ASCII. That should be enough. It doesn't
> matter if the language ends up looking like a regular expression in
> Perl, does it?

Ugh! Pass the sickbucket someone.

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Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!
