Re: Intergermansk
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 28, 2005, 14:35 |
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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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