Artlang-driven English spelling reform
From: | Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...> |
Date: | Friday, May 12, 2000, 16:22 |
Inspired on the English spelling reform, I was thingking in
a pseudo spelling reform, which could drive English into a
more phonetic language but it's not aimed to go that way.
First, it will take diagraphs and changed for extended or
accented Latin letters, like changing <th> /T/ with <þ>
(thorn).
Some of these changes:
<th> into thorn, when pronounced /T/.
<th> into eth, when pronounced /D/.
<ng> into eng, when pronounced /N/, left <ng> when /Ng/.
<ch> into either c acute or c cedilla*, when /tS/.
<sh> into either s acute or s cedilla.
<gh> into yoth, when mude or /f/, <g> when /g/.
<wh> into something I found in the Thyromanes font, which
is as a <hu> diagraph.
<ph> into f.
Then, when a letter can have two sounds, it could be split
in two symbols. As c acute /tS/ can be seen a a
palatization of c /k/, then we could use g acute for /dZ/.
This allow <gh> and <gu> diagraphs to become <g>.
Now is time for vowels... volunteers?
-- Carlos Th
* my original idea was to use c cedilla, s cedilla and g
cedilla and leave <c> with two different values: /k/
and /s/. But I've been thinking on using c cedilla
for /s/, then the palatization could be rendered with an
acute.