Re: Intergermansk

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> RB = Ray Brown
> MT = Muke Tuver
>
> RB>"Pure saxon English", published by Rand-McNally, 1890
>
> MT> I've actually read this one, mid-last year.  Subtitled "or, Americans
> MT> to the front", it starts out as a plea for spelling reform, which,
> MT> after a while, owing perhaps to some of the difficulty of making
> MT> reformed English spelling look any good, mutates into a full-out
> MT> conlang, expurgating Latin roots, and even importing some other
> MT> Germanic ones, and even uses q and (ISTR) upside-down i as vowel signs.
>
> It uses |q| for a vowel?  Hm.  Add that to your list of Roman letter
> applications, Ray.  Although I guess it's not a natlang. :)
>
> I've never heard of Molee or this paper.  I should dig it up.
>
> I'm also fond of Twain's paper on spelling reform, although I personally
> would have swapped his assignments of |x| for /T/ and |y| for /S/. :)
I take it he was not enamoured of ye olde merrye Spellinge. :)

                                                       Andreas