Flying Bird

Daniel Noelpp d.noelpp at GMX.CH
Mon Jun 21 19:18:08 UTC 2004


Hello Val, hello SignWriting list...

> Right now, we do not have these spellings to mean separate things, but
> who knows, maybe we will end up like English someday, having different
> spellings mean different things, or...more like the German
> spelling...which is more phonetically based...so that all the signs
> that are produced the same way will have one spelling with several
> different meanings, depending on the context of the sentence...

The German spelling is not very regular, either. There's the example of
two equal sounding words: to teach and to empty: lehren and leeren
(LAYRen).

Perhaps Spanish or Italian are better examples?

Daniel ;-)



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