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Subject: Re: Lunatic orthography (was Re: Esperanto as a stepping stone?
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Date: 24 Jan 95 14:55:50 +0100

In article <rharmsen.108.0015AE41@knoware.nl>, rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen) writes:

> The current spelling is weird, but I like it! And I wonder if it's really so 
> much more difficult than a consistent system, which represents phonemes as 
> letter combinations, because fast readers don't spell out words, but 
> recognize patterns.

Yes; because of that, Chinese can be read much faster than English. Wouldn't
it be simpler and nicer ceasing to worry about spelling and when you want 
to write an english word, just use a Chinese letter with the same meaning?


--- Jordi



