Re: Cyrillic for English

Roland Hoensch wrote:
> Actually You are right.
Tell me, why do you capitalize "you" constantly?

> But out of those three 'th' does not have a single pronounciation but two.
But a mostly-predictable variation as I've already stated.  /D/ between
vowels, otherwise /T/, only pronouns (like "they"), demonstratives
(this, that) and the article "the" are exceptions.  But, "dh" would
certainly be a handy digraph.  I'll admit that.

> n in new has no letter.
Hunh?  It's the same as in "no" or "never", at least in my dialect.
Some have /nj/, I suppose, but that's because the <ew> = /ju/.

> Even if it is to be digraphs; why not at least have letters for all
> the consonants sounds?
Except for /Z/, we do.  Consonants are almost totally predictable.  A
bit complex, yes, but predictable.  The few exceptions are things like
<gh> which can either be silent or /f/.  But, I think that those are
naturally disappearing.  Just look at "tho", "thru", "nite", "lite" and
the like.  Perhaps in a generation or so, <gh> will be lost.

> (if one desires to leave the vowels in the mess that they are in.)
They're not as much a mess as you think, as someone else has already
pointed out.

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