From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Mon Oct 06 1997 - 23:51:00 MDT
In a message dated 10/6/97 4:29:50 PM, phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu wrote:
(re semetic written language)
>So someone decided that they need only write down the
>consonants, leaving off tense and number inflections, perhaps similar to
>the way we used to leave out punctuation. The article insists that this
>is a more usable system than it seems. I can only defer to their more
>informed judgement
Thnk bt t. ltgh t's dffclt, y cn fgr t wht smthng sys wtht vwls.
It varies by language, of course. I imagine those semetic languages were
better for no-vowel than English. Chinese, OTOH, would be very tough.
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