Re: Con-Alphabets & Real Languages

From: "Roger Mills"

> Kou pretty much pre-empted everything I was going to say.......
Sorry :-)

I was also thinking as I took the dog on his evening perambulation:
digraphs ((th), (sh), (ph) etc. to render fricatives {and many members here
would recognize (dh) and (kh) as exotic renderings of /D/ and /x/}, and (ea)
for /i:/, (oa) for /o:/, and "silent 'e'" to render other long vowels
emplify tortuous examples of grafting a script onto a different phonetic
system. Don't get me wrong; I love English spelling and its quirks, but
imagine how different it might look if we stuck with runes or
adopted/adapted our own systems.

Kou