Timeline for English letter sequence with most pronunciations
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| Nov 22, 2010 at 23:34 | vote | accept | thesunneversets | ||
| Nov 20, 2010 at 22:58 | comment | added | Jon Purdy | +1. A large number of Chinese characters are semanto-phonetic: half of the character gives you a clue as to pronunciation; the other half, meaning. So if you're a literate native speaker, you stand a pretty good chance of being able to figure out an unknown character. The problem is a bit more extreme in Japanese, which tends to use a single character for multiple related meanings, which are disambiguated by context given by phonetic characters. Each meaning typically has its own slightly different pronunciation, which may be derived from a Chinese word or a native Japanese one. Yeeeah. | |
| Nov 20, 2010 at 19:49 | comment | added | thesunneversets | I guess English is far from being the hardest language in the world. Nevertheless, whoever came up with the idea of consistent phonetic spelling throughout a language deserves a medal! | |
| Nov 20, 2010 at 19:27 | history | answered | Kosmonaut | CC BY-SA 2.5 |