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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: German pronunciation of English "v"
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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 13:16:37 GMT
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In article <rte-1305961815010001@mac-118.lz.att.com>,
Ralph T. Edwards <rte@elmo.lz.att.com> wrote:
>In article <4n1umb$ejg@nms.telepost.no>, jonhaug@telepost.no (Jon Harald
>Haug) wrote:
>
>> German, Czech, and Finnish orthographies are three splendid examples 
>> which show that the Roman alphabet may perfectly fit non-Romance 
>> languages.
>
>Perfection is in the eye of the beholder, of course, but di- and
>trigraphs, and dots and hooks don't look like perfection to me, but
>kluges.  Finnish works okay pretty much by accident.  I.e. any language
>with fewer or the same phonemes as Latin can be well represented.  Even
>finnish uses dots, right?

Yup!  And it has at least one unwritten phoneme.


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