07-09-2026, 04:05 PM
(07-09-2026, 03:41 PM)rikforto wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think you are trying to draw a few distinctions generally that do not apply specifically to the example at present.I’m speaking generally.
(07-09-2026, 03:41 PM)rikforto wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Likewise, I appreciate that this might be a naive attempt at transcribing the language, but a French speaker (even a second language learner) is not attempting to transcribe a language he does not know. To know spoken French is to know its phonology well enough to be able to parse these distinctions on the fly.You don’t understand me and perhaps you don’t read what I write very carefully. You may know and distinguish the sounds, but you don’t know HOW WORDS ARE SPELLED.
Yes, you won’t confuse o with ou or au, but how would you know how to spell the word maintenant (mantenoun, if you go by the sounds)? This is assuming you’ve never seen any texts in French.
But fine, French, find one book and study the written words to understand how they are spelled. In the case of the Chinese language, you only have hieroglyphs, and not only are they difficult to write, but they don’t convey the phonetics at all. That is, if you know Chinese but are afraid of making a mistake, you can’t look up the pronunciation of a word in a dictionary.
Also, I don’t understand the essence of your discussion method — you shift the topic to some abstract direction that isn’t related to the original subject, asking endless questions. What does this prove or disprove (since you’re not addressing the theory itself)?

