Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 1, 2003, 21:46 |
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On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 08:18:33PM -0700, JS Bangs wrote:
> > Plus, it's still a little large for a fully syllabic writing system.
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> Have you considered simply not having unique symbols for all possible
> syllables? AFAIK this is fairly common in syllabaries: some distinctions
> are neutralized in writing, making reading somewhat of an adventure.
> Alternately, you could have a smaller set of basic symbols with diacritics
> for indicating a few of the distinctions.
I decided to go with an algorithmic method of producing syllable symbols
from phonemes. Not unlike Hangul, but the combinations are more fluid
than just individual letters arranged in a cell.
-Mark