To make dictation more efficient, Bauby's interlocutor, Claude Mendibil, read from a special alphabet which consisted of the letters ordered in accordance with their frequency in the French language.

为了使“指认”工作更加高效，和协作完成书作的克劳德·门迪比尔根据法语中字母的使用频率高低，排列出了一张特殊的字母表。

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And the introduction by a French missionary of a system for transliterating Vietnamese into the roman alphabet played a great role in unifying the country.

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