Re: YAEPT: Enuf is Enuf: Some Peepl Thru with Dificult Spelingz

From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:29 AM

> You seem to use <oo> for both /u/ ("yoo" above) and /o:/
> ("beeloo", er, below).  Even in only final position I think that's
> a distinction we need to keep.
Way árn't wi sımpli ıntrədyúsıng mór letəs fór đə vauəls?
Ólsŏ, yú jəst hëv tə get rıd əf jə 'dayəkrıtəfŏbia' ...
Đët'd meyk ŧıngs ə gud díl íziə ay ŧingk.*

OK, that above looks horrible IMO ... and I don't speak
_that_ British either.** But why don't we simply use some of
the IPA vowel signs in addition? It's clear that English
has more phonemic vowels than the five cardinal ones that
are included in the Alphabet (aeiou), and I don't like too
weird diagraphs either (They have a use in Irish and Scots
Gaelic, though!). There's aɐɑɒɔeɘəɛɜɞɤiıoɵɶɷuʉʊʋʌʚ in IPA,
that should be enough to choose from.

*tongue-in-cheek* Or, just adapt my Tahano Nuhikamu writing
system. That'd surely be fun ... ;-)

Carsten


*) I'd suggest this:

p - p                  i - i
b - b                  i: - i
t - t                  I - ı
d - d                  E - e
k - k                  æ - ë
tS - c                 A - a
dZ - j                 A: - á
f - f                  Q - o
v - v                  Q: - ó
T - th (þ? ŧ?)         U - u
D - dh (ð? đ?)         u - ú
s - s                  u: - ú (some have [u\:] here)
z - z                  V - a
S - sh (š?)            3: - ɛr
Z - zh (ž?)            @ - ə
h - h                  EI - ey
m - m                  @U - ou (ow? ɵ? ŏ?)
n - n                  OU - ou (ow? ɵ? ŏ?)
N - ng (ŋ?)            aI - ay
l - l ([5] o/c, too)   OI - oy
r\ - r                 aU - au (aw? ɑ? å? ă?)
j - y                  i@(`) - ir
w - w                  e@(`) - er
                       u@(`) - ur

There exist capital letters for all of these (ƐƏƟ), except
for ɑ. Would Ϫ (Coptic Gangia, U+03EB) be an alternative?

*) I agree -- which dialect should be the default one? Or
should we really make a split between AmE and BrE? My
<ír>, <ér> and <úr> spellings are supposed to be
intermediates.

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