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alphabet - just letters?
« on: May 29, 2009, 09:54:00 pm »
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essay topic:  alphabet - just letters?

any suggestions of content of such an essay
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Re: alphabet - just letters?
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2009, 02:44:16 pm »
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Possibly:
Discuss sounds (phonology, IPA)
How the letters are used (in terms of morphology, lexicon, semantics)
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Re: alphabet - just letters?
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2009, 04:24:03 pm »
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Re: alphabet - just letters?
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2009, 09:41:51 pm »
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ash141... i understand your second point.

however the "Discuss sounds (phonology, IPA)...what do you mean exactly...sorry
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Re: alphabet - just letters?
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2009, 06:20:01 pm »
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how each letter carries different phonetics and when combined together as phonemes can vary greatly. take -ough:

cough, throug, ought etc.

hope i made sense because my sac is tomorrow and i haven't started learning my topic >.<
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Re: alphabet - just letters?
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2009, 08:09:57 pm »
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You could perhaps discuss the role of the alphabet in orthography, and how non-standard uses can suggest certain characteristics of the user. If you wanted, you could also talk about the use of letters as symbols, and how phonemes/letters can embody their own meaning (so go into semantics) when used in specific contexts.
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