Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who Spotting Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 20:30:55 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:30:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7e11046c9ebdfb72441c5e031bc3f76c"; logging-data="3604737"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kAtL8O+ggz+Io2XcSv9REJWdl5mrPadk=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sz2qL7R8E7bWYRFeN32QW0cIPsA= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2082 Your Name wrote on 14/6/24 8:29 am: > On 2024-06-13 10:21:15 +0000, Blueshirt said: >> Daniel70 wrote: >>> Blueshirt wrote on 12/6/24 10:59 pm: >>>> >>>> You wait til we start talking about the Irish language, we >>>> don't even have 26 letters in our alphabet! >>> >>> More or Less?? >> >> Less. There's only 18 letters in the Irish alphabet. > > The Rotokas language of New Guinea only has 12 letters in the alphabet > (and two of those letters sound the same!).  :-p > > The Khmer language of Southeast Asia has 74 letters in the alphabet, > including 24 dependent vowels and 12 independent vowels. > > The Chinese language has over 50,000 symbols (many are only historic > usage), but only 24 basic characters. Japanese, originally based on > Chinese, has similar numbers.  :-) In my viewing of Archeological-type Ducos, I've other wondered how many Hieroglyph the Ancient Egyptians used. -- Daniel