Re: Romaji as syllabary

But what syllables exist in English? Probably not
these syllables.


 --- Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> I just woke up with this odd thought running through
> my mind for a quick and easy syllabary.  Each of the
> 26 letters of the Roman alphabet could be treated as
> a
> syllable and pronounced in full within the context
> of
> the word.  Thus "STO" would be pronounced "es'tio",
> "HAD" would be "aitchay'dee".
>
> Then maybe the lower case letters could represent an
> alternate syllable like "R" = "aar" while "r" =
> "ro".
> Maybe the rule could be vowel before consonant in
> the
> upper case and vowel after consonant in the lower
> case.  ("M" = "em", "m" = "ma", "P" = "ep", "p" =
> "pee", "TO" = "tio", "tO" = "eto", etc. (But what
> about "A" vs "a" hmmm. I don't know.))
>
> That would make for an easy-to-remember 52 symbol
> syllabary.  And it could be easily mapped onto a
> custom made font that worked easily with the
> standard
> English keybord.
>
> Is 52 enough? There would be 140,608 valid
> 3-syllable
> words and 7.3 million 4-syllable words.  That seems
> like enough.
>
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