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Re: Language Patterns and Script

Subject: Re: Language Patterns and Script
From: "Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim"
Date: 29 Dec 2006 12:53:14 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Harlan Messinger schrieb:
> The issue seems to be whether the viability of a script depends on the
> patterns, not whether the patterns result from having a particular
> script as seems to be your interpretation.
>
> > However, when we know a pattern we can predict the vowels
> > easily, dispense with them and use shorthand script

No Harlan I said the viability of  Arabic script depends on language
patterns. Still all languages use patterns, don't they? It is of course
difficult ot read English without the vowels partly because there are
five of them and not only three as in Arabic.


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