FFlores scripsit:
>
> John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Mercy! It's certainly *not* easy to read for an L2 speaker that
> is already familiar with the traditional orthography. Though it
> could be nice for L1 speakers and for new L2 students, if-and-once
> everybody agrees on using it. Which will probably never happen...
Oh, I know. I will have mercy and won't post in it any more.
I simply wanted to prove that non-phonemic spelling reforms are
plausible for English.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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