Don Myers wrote on 20 Nov 2004: Teachers tell students to practice reading. Students then run across many words they've never heard pronounced. As they see the ... quickly pick out the word in a list be helpful even though there is no meaning

Sometimes I read this, not in books, but in newsgroups, mails and other rather informal sources, and from native speakers ... read "I could have made it", but what is it actually? Is it slang, hip language or just a typo? It's a

We, native speakers, don't have to rote-memorize the pronunciations. Once we know what the characters mean, we know which sound it refers to. You can do that, I assume, because you've had the words explained before you began to read

'If one were to label as zhuanzhu only those phonograms which were derived from existing characters to which phonetic elements ... existing characters to which semantic symbols were added, then the distinction between phonograms and the

LEE Sau Dan (Email Removed) wrote on 30 Dec 2003: CC> Put the tree radical to the left and the CC> meaning changes from "east" to "beams of a CC> ceiling or roof", and it is pronounced the same, .. ^^ CC> but it

Jacques Guy (Email Removed) wrote on 28 Dec 2003: Geoff helpfully quoted CyberCypher who had written: wrote on 27 Dec All the more so that the Chinese original very likely must have had the character yin ("sound") in whatever whoever

"Peter T. Daniels" (Email Removed) wrote on 27 Dec 2003: OP's question has been answered, as well as it can be, by several posters, including at least one with access ... or the translation, is garbled to some extent, so that,

"Peter T. Daniels" (Email Removed) wrote on 26 Dec 2003: Tell me, o clever dean, why would someone apply the label "phonogram" to an entity that contains no phonetic element, but only a semantic indicator? Maybe because 85% of

The following sentence is from a monograph on Chinese writing: 'If one were to label as zhuanzhu only those phonograms ... was hoping someone might be able to shed some light. FWIW, I think this is a poorly written sentence. Sebastian. I think

I don't know from linguistics and phonetics (we're sending Young Aaron to grad school for that), but I think the ... context where there's a closely linked following word beginning with a vowel, however, it turns into a flap sound (*)