Re: Regularized Inglish

John Cowan wrote:

> > 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.
I think he was referring to the pronunciation /s@gdZEst/, which
has considerable currency.

> > > In general, wurds of French or Latin origin tend to be left alone,
> > > whereaz Germanic wurds are more offen changed.
> >
> > Hmm, bizarre. Latinate words can have spellings as weird as Germanic ones.
>
> Most of the oddity is in unstressed vowels, which Wijk's system does not
> change.
Oh, I'd say there are plenty of weird words ultimately of
Greek origin that make no sense;  E.g., "pneumonic", "chthonic", etc.
Many, if not most, of these are also Latinate, since they came to
us via Latin, and are usually written as if they came from Latin
in any case.

>  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.
Why the arbitrary distinction? Wouldn't he say reading and writing are
both equally important, even in the age of spellcheckers?

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