Re: Word count of minimum vocabulary


Lee Sau Dan wrote:


You can use the character in English and pronounce it as "sun". The
symbol "1" didn't exist in English texts until quite recently, did it?
And when you adopted it, you pronounced it as "1". Imagine that you
now adopt the character for "sun" to write the English word "sun".
Then, how is that different from "1"? (And how about the Thai
numerals? They're not as good as the European (often misnamed
"Arabic") numerals?) The widespreadness affects the status of being
ideographic or logographic?

they are arabic, western (n. african) arabic, numerals, just not
eastern arabic numerals.

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