Re: Swedish alphabet [was: Re: Spanish alphabet]

Ed Heil wrote:
>
> So would you say that English is approaching a point where the written
> word has no relation to the phonetics of its pronunciation, and
> becomes an ideographic glyph, as in Chinese?  English is supposed to
> have a number of odd resemblances to Chinese as it is.... Hmm....
Actually, I would enforce a loose spelling pronunciation.
Stop the vowel shifts! Reduce to 5 or 7 vowels, none silent.
We should all speak like Chico (Marx ... sigh).