[thechat] Shyness linked with Internet research

[Ben Dyer]

At 03:33 PM 7/5/2002, you wrote:
>Curiosity leads me to ask:
>
> > phonetic alphabet - bad
>
>How?

It makes for a longer language visually?

Compare a page of English (or German or Russian) to a page of Chinese (I've
always thought that Chinese has an visual elegance that other languages
just don't have).

Of course, non-alphabet-based languages just create speech problems.  More
monosyllabic characters means that you have to have a tonal system just to
accomodate all the words in your language.

*shrug*

--Ben

Ben Dyer, Senior Internet Developer, Imaginuity Interactive
http://www.imaginuity.com/

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