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Because there are accents in spoken sentences. Now if you would include accent marks in the letters it might make it easier to parse. Sadly, as far as I know th
by syockit 6y ago
Because there are accents in spoken sentences. Now if you would include accent marks in the letters it might make it easier to parse. Sadly, as far as I know there are no standard accent marks for kana.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoWhile the prosodic contour of a sentence does help in parsing, there's a reason no writing system has ever taken notice of it. It's not necessary. The most obvious way to see this would be to think about synthesized speech, which almost never uses natural prosody. Think of the voice of Stephen Hawking, or just a splicing of some prerecorded options. ("At the tone, the time will be / TWO / TWENTY / THREE / and / TEN / seconds.")