Re: Arabic -- qawsitaliyya?

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:54:40 GMT

"LEE Sau Dan" <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message
news:m3hdt4xa45.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-"LEE Sau Dan"
<danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message
news:m3hdt4xa45.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-> So, the vowel-less writing system
isn't deficient. It simply fits the
> nature of the languages: word roots are consonant based. So, words
> become easier to recognize when they're free of the "pollution" of
> vowel markers.

That's just a load of "rationalizing".

It's a crummy system, evidenced by the trouble that even
Arabic children have learning to read and write their own
language.

The writing was frozen in time 1200 years or so ago and has not
evolved as most language elements do to improve clarity in the
contexts in which the language is used.

All languages have something silly, this is just part of the burden
of Arabic.

English has the infamous fish=ghoti problem.
(and: tough, through, though, thought, bough, cough, sough, etc)

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