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

Charles scripsit:

> Nay. It would both lose any connection to literature,
> and fragment English into Nyorkese, Chicaguan, Bastonian,
> and 9000 other dialects of English all around the world.
> Can't do it. (Probably can't even speak of it much here,
> maybe auxlang is a better venue). Phoneticism is a mistake.
> Um, unless that was the intent of The Secret Cabal.
You underestimate Wijk's system.  I think he goes a little too
far in some places, but his concern is for regularity, not
phoneticism, and there would be no significant fragmentation,
save perhaps into U.S. and Commonwealth varieties, where there
is already fragmentation.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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