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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Languages: Hard, Harder, Hardest
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In article <rte-2307961444410001@135.25.40.118>
rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards) writes:

> 
> Because Russian has pretty much one symbol for one sound system of
> representation, fewer characters are required than, say Dutch, English or
> Finnish which often use digraphs like th, ea, aa. This is an artifact of
> the writing system and does not reflect the complexity of the real
> (spoken) language.  French has many silent letters.


You are posting to alt.postmodern and referring to oral language as
"real".  Care to explain yourself?

For what it's worth I'd wager the variation for oral length would
exceed 30%.



David

"Heideggerian hope comes into question." J.D.
