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Re: Intergermansk

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, January 28, 2005, 14:35
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/. :)

-Marcos

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