Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmx.net> writes:

> Pascal Bourguignon <spam at thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:
> 
> > Well,  I would say  that kanji  is badly  designed, compared  to latin
> > alphabet.   The voyels  are composed  with consones  (with diacritical
> > marks) and  consones are  written following four  or five  groups with
> > additional diacritical  marks to  distinguish within the  groups. It's
> > more a phonetic code than a true alphabet.
> 
> Huh? You seem to be confused (BTW French is misleading here: it's vowels and
> consonants in English). *Kanji* are not phonetic, you seem to be talking about
> *kana*. 

Yes, I was. Thank you.


> And the blanket claim that Japanese spelling in kana is badly designed
> compared to say, English orthography seems really rather dubious to me.
> 
> 'as

I was criticising the graphical aspect on a discrimination stand-point.

For example, the difference between the latin glyphs for "ka" and "ga"
is bigger than that between the corresponding kana glyphs.

But it does not matter since the topic was kanji...


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