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From: gls@odyssey.ATT.COM (g.l.sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Change the software or the alphabet?
Message-ID: <348@odyssey.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 14:48:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 14:48:38 1987
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> Finnish is written as it is spoken.  Every letter has only one way to
> pronounce it.  If you drop letters off, how would you write words
> containing those letters?

In English we use combinations like "th" and "ch." It works fine unless
you insist on phonetic spelling.

> This all is (partially) true for several languages (e.g. Swedish and German).
> KEEP YOUR NASTY FINGERS OUT OF OUR ALPHABET AND FIX YOUR PROGRAMME(R)S!!

This seems awfully possessive.  He who steals my alphabet, steals trash.
I can always invent a new one!

By the way, I have yet to see a standard that accommodates the Seuss
postzetals: yuzz, wum, um, humph, ...

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