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

Thomas R. Wier wrote:

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> Also, don't forget that the very idea of standardized spellings is a
> relatively recent phenomenon.  The English, e.g., didn't really have any
> conception of "standard" English until around the mid to late 18th
> century,
True. Although mine will be somewhat of an auxlangish tangent, it might
be interesting to somebody ... just a two-liner from an old magazine
in Occidental, which I will attempt to translate with reckless liberty:

"Li constant son de un national lingue ducte a fonetic ortofrafie;
Standardization of a national dialect leads to phonemic spelling;

li constant international ortografie ducte ad unitari international foneticism."
standardized international spelling leads to a unified international language.

I like this because it turns the spelling problem upside down.
I have become convinced that it would be well to preserve
English and French spelling despite their silent letters etc.
Sounds change too fast, writing should last millenia ... maybe.
They say, Ancient Egyptian was held together only by the scribes
adopting some prestige dialect. Or, there's the example of
Chinese writing and kanji ... the reverse of the Hangul solution.
Anyway, "phoneticism" may not be the panacea I once thought it was;
it seems to lead only to splintering English in the world today.