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Problem is ..

Many words have the same sound but different meaning.
According to you , what is the solution ?

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2007-12-28 19:31:45 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

3 answers

If you want to be logical , we will have to use Hindi alphabets.

Because Hindi language is phonetic not English.Phonetic here means that you can predict the pronunciation from the spelling, and predict the spelling from the pronunciation ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration

2007-12-28 19:33:13 · answer #1 · answered by Washington 3 · 1 0

But you can usually tell from the context (the other words in the sentence) which meaning is meant. If you can't, you can ask the speaker.

But in a book, it's hard.

The Japanese solve the problem by using different "kanji" for different meanings. But, then you get the bigger problem that you have to learn about 2000 more characters.

2007-12-28 19:39:43 · answer #2 · answered by Madame M 7 · 1 0

memorize.

2007-12-28 20:04:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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