08-10-2017, 06:55 PM
Free (unregulated) anagramming is one of those lines that shouldn't be crossed, since it almost certainly results in one-way ciphers. As you say, this is especially true when combined with other wiggle-factors.
I'm not sure if I agree with your last objection though, unless I misunderstood. In phonetically written languages, a simple word meaning wildly different things is quite common. Let's imagine for a second that English has phonetic spelling, and consider all words that sound like "to".
To be
Where are you going to?
You are going too fast.
You too are going fast.
There are two people going fast.
That's just off the top of my head, there are surely more. That's five entirely different meanings which, in a phonetically spelled language, would be just one word.
A numeral that additionally marks infinitives, indicates a direction, indicates an excessive degree and a conjunctive?
I'm not sure if I agree with your last objection though, unless I misunderstood. In phonetically written languages, a simple word meaning wildly different things is quite common. Let's imagine for a second that English has phonetic spelling, and consider all words that sound like "to".
To be
Where are you going to?
You are going too fast.
You too are going fast.
There are two people going fast.
That's just off the top of my head, there are surely more. That's five entirely different meanings which, in a phonetically spelled language, would be just one word.
A numeral that additionally marks infinitives, indicates a direction, indicates an excessive degree and a conjunctive?