Re: Plausibility Check

In article <1153069782.593448.85400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"DJensen" <i_m0nk@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Which takes us back to which of the listed phonemes might realistically
be expected to collapse, therefore changing which phonemes will need
representation.

Writing systems lag behind language change, because we can never be
sure just precisely how a language will change. There are many paths
it could take from any given stage, and none of them are guaranteed.

It would be a mighty prescient culture who would have a writing system
that correctly encodes a future sound change!

Nathan

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Nathan Sanders
Linguistics Program
Williams College
http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders/
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