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Jd, how do the sandhi rules keep you from finding out what the word is? They make it easier to find out. The rules are just that -- rules -- that bring order ou
by pattisapu 13y ago
Jd, how do the sandhi rules keep you from finding out what the word is? They make it easier to find out. The rules are just that -- rules -- that bring order out of the chaos.
As to how you guess, yes, you infer from the etymology.
The fact that it's guessing doesn't mean it's easy, or that guessing gives you as much information as actually looking it up, parsing it, etc.
- Jd 13y agoWhat makes words easy to figure out is by putting spaces in between the words. Iamafrog <- you can figure that out what that means, but it certainly isn't easier than modern orthorgraphy. Aamafrog <- you could figure that out if you know that "i" + "a" sometimes combines to form "aa" -- but why would you want to do that? In what way is that easier?