Re: Regularized Inglish

----- Original Message -----
From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Regularized Inglish


> Eric Christopherson scripsit:
>
> > > Az for fonetic independence, we in the U.S. aulreddy hav it, but
> > > unfortunately mostly in places where it duz no wun enny good at aul.
> >
> > What do you mean by this?
>
> See my earlier post.  Most Commonwealth vs. North American spelling
> differences are useless from the viewpoint of sound-symbol correspondence.
>
> > > Wijk's system is essentially orthografic; he has discovered the most
> > > common use of each stressed vowel (or vowel group) and consonant
> > > (or consonant group) and sudgests chainging oenly the wuns that
> > > conflict.  Unstressed vowels aar left aloen, and their can be up to
> > > 8 spellings for a sound (e.g. /ej/ can be spelled "a", "ai", "ei",
"aigh",
> > > "eigh", and several more).
> >
> > Hmm. I would still spell it <suggests> in that system :)
>
> The most common use of "gg" is /g/, which he makes standard.  So
> "suggest" /s@dZest/ has to change.
Ah :) I meant that I pronounce it /s@g"dZEst/. I guess that would be
something like <sugjest>.