Re: where do so many tenses come from?

Herman Rubin wrote:

In article <874q1a7m8c.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

But it is still true that in general the larger the alphabet
the fewer characters will be needed. For speech, the alphabet
consists of the phonemes, or phoneme combinations. The most
efficient known oral method of communication is by pitch, for
those with perfect pitch. It has occasionally been used for
communication, but not often.


Very often: in modems. But that's not the sort of communications you are
talking about here.

Joachim
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