Re: Artyom Kouzminykh: Answes&proposal

>Well, if you are going to make a language easy to learn for people, why
>use an orthography that doesnt closely match the sounds? In my conlang,
>the words are written as they sound. So, a speaker of Japanese doesnt have
>to learn that /ph/ is the sound for /f/, because when they write in
>romaji, the <f> corresponds to /f/. Just because it is beautiful doesnt
>make it totally functional.
>
Well, I don't know. Personally for me it's easy to wrtite "orthographical"
instead of "ortografical", "classico" inst. "klasiko", "collectio" inst.
"kolelkcio" etc. though I'm not anglo- or romance-phone (I am Russian, and
we even don't have such letters in our language!). There is something nice,
attractive (for me) writing (and reading!) all these funny old ph, th, gn,
double consonsnts etc. Something real, historical, not fictional like in
"fonetikal" language...:-)

Artyom Kouzminykh


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