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- From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Cleanicode
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.171447.2531@enea.se>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 17:14:47 GMT
- References: <C138zr.r3@poel.juice.or.jp> <1jiotjINNj5q@life.ai.mit.edu> <2179@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- David J Birnbaum (djbpitt+@pitt.edu) writes:
- >Things get messier one character over, however,
- >where L <B> corresponds in form to GC <V>, so that the form and
- >phonetics are not aligned.
-
- This is a bogus argument. There are only a handful characters in
- the Latin script which have have a unified phonetic value. Of the
- mainstream characters only F, M and P seems to qualify on an initial
- inventory. With a little more generosity we can add N, L and R. (If
- we in the latter case change "phonetic" to "phomenic".)
-
- Had you taken the shape P you would at least had something which
- looked like a case, but in the case of B the reason for the difference
- is simply the same sort phonetic evulotion which is the reason for
- most of the varying usages of the Latin letters.
- --
- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
-