----- Original Message -----
From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:21 AM
Subject: Regularized Inglish
> 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?
> 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 :)
> He uses "dh" for the voiced sound /D/ except initially; this iz a point
> in which I disagree with him, and I am not using it in this post.
> The digraf "ie" means /ai/ finally, but /i/ elsewhare.
Pretty silly to make them have different pronunciations at different
positions.
> Wijk thinks "ph" iz unnecessary, chainging it to "f" everywhare;
> I suspect this iz excessiv.
I don't think so... at least changing <ph> to <f> doesn't alter the
appearance that drastically (IMHO).
> 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.