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Talk:World History Lecture Eight (view source)
Revision as of 23:58, March 17, 2009
, 23:58, March 17, 2009→Thoughts and comments
:::::: The larger language (in terms of usage) of Chinese is not phonetic. Also, I'm surprised to hear you claim that Hebrew is phonetic. It traditionally lacked vowels!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 15:47, 17 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::: The larger language (in terms of usage) of Chinese is not phonetic. Also, I'm surprised to hear you claim that Hebrew is phonetic. It traditionally lacked vowels!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 15:47, 17 March 2009 (EDT)
(outdent) Denise, "sound-based written elements" = phonetic, rather than character representing ideas (as they do in Chinese)? In this sense English is phonetic - although I think there is a specific linguistic word for this; phonograms as opposed to ideograms ? :) . Even though a character (or sequence) may represent ultiple sounds depending on context (and which language it was adapted from), it still stands for sounds. A phonetic written language is not the same as a phonetically consistent lexicon. In this sense any language not written in ideograms is phonetic.[[User:LowKey|LowKey]] 19:58, 17 March 2009 (EDT)