Re: Pronouncing "W" (UUas: Re: "UU" specimen?)

Nicholas Bodley scripsit:

> There used to be a big and sometimes very humorous/witty collection
> of alternate words for all non-alphameric printable characters, in
> what was probably a predecessor to the New Hacker's Dictionary
> (also a delightful niche cultural resource).

Still there at http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/ASCII.html

> Btw, I'm thinking of writing a moderately-long message about
> pathological misuse of phonetic alphabetic scripts, specifically
> English letters and words using the roman alphabet. Too concisely,
> I'm referring to the likes of "Sorry for the inconvience", a
> distressingly-commonplace notice one sees in public; also
> "nutrious", "incandent", and numerous other words with omitted
> syllables. IF you regard these misspellings as very-wide, low
> logograms (no, I'm not kidding), they are less surprising.

Called "haplology" by the learned, and "haplogy" by haplologites.

> (Does Korean consist of alphabetic logograms? I think both terms are
> somewhat wrong.)

Korean is an alphabet that groups its letters into clumps. It is also
a featural script, because the shapes of the letters reflect the phonetic
features of the sounds they refer to.

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