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John DeFrancis
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Visible speech

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…iciencies from writing systems being more rather than less user-friendly in representing speech sounds. The long argument on this point is given by John DeFrancis's book Visible Speech. http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Co...

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