Re: CHAT: R: CHAT: uGLy KaPiTaL LeTTRes & Klingon (was Luca's Re: Ke'kh)

At 13:08 23.9.2000 -0400, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:03:41PM +0200, Mangiat wrote:
>[snip]
> > Fonetik reformz ov Inglish aar olwez aksepted, or at least there has been a
> > good number of us trying to realize them.
>
>The problem is that English pronunciation varies quite widely with
>dialect. (Ever think about vowel representation differences between
>British English and Texan? :-P) It'd be hard to come up with a phonology
>that works for everyone, unless you single out a particular dialect, which
>then will be objected to by people who prefer another dialect.
>
>
>T
You can always reconstruct and single out the dialect ancestral to all
modern dialects of Standard English -- funny thing is you can reconstruct
it even if it never existed as such... -- tho the question remains how
happy people would be with it...