Re: Regularized Inglish
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 30, 1999, 1:04 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> The most common use of "gg" is /g/, which he makes standard. So
> "suggest" /s@dZest/ has to change.
I pronounce it /s@gdZEst/, which is why "gg" makes sense to me.
> Most of the oddity is in unstressed vowels, which Wijk's system does not
> change. In general, the purpose of Regularized Inglish is to make
> reading easy, not spelling; there may be many possible spellings of a
> word, of which only one is correct.
But if the Latinate spelling would suggest an incorrect pronunciation,
then shouldn't it be reformed as well? I see no reason to have a
different convention for native vs. non-native words.
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