Re: THEORY Ideal system of writing

J. 'Mach' Wust wrote: "Creating a syllabary for English wouldn't be very
difficult if there were a few diacritics for clusters and no-vowel
'syllables' for consonants at the ends of stems. Then, the word _strength_
could be written basically as _te N0_ with diacritics for the other sounds.
It'd require say twenty consonants multiplied with seven vowels (including
the no-vowel 'syllables') plus diacritics for preceding and final _s, r, l,
y, w_ and final _n, d, T_, so the total number of signs would be proximate
to 170."

Something like this might work...

My 'lect, southern Ontario Canada English, has something like eight vowels
(/i/, /I/, /E/, /@/, /&/, /u/, /U/, /A/) and a whole bunch of diphthongs
(/EI)/, /@U)/, /&U)/, /AI/...).

The consonants are as follows: /p, b, m, T, D, t, d, n, s, z, r\, l, S, tS),
dZ), k, g, Ng, Nk, h/ (or thereabouts).

Consonant clusters are omnipresent, and there are so many of them that I
can't list them all here.
consonant+lateral: /pl, bl, sl, kl, gl/
consonant+rhotic: /pr\, br\, Tr\, tr\, dr\, kr\, gr\/
alveolar fricative+consonant: /sp, sm, st, sn, sk/
nasal+consonant clusters: /mp, mb, nt, nd, ns/ (etc.)

The script would use different diacritics so that clusters like /pr\/ would
be composed of a base for /p/ plus a 'this is a consonant+rhotic cluster'
symbol, thus /pr\/. Likewise, clusters like /r\t/ could be formed thusly:
/t/ + 'this is a rhotic+consonant cluster' > /r\t/.

Also, diphthongs could be written like this too, so f'rex. there could be a
'this is a schwa+vowel cluster' for /@U)/ (base /U/ plus diacritic).

If anyone attempts such a system, I'd be r'ly interested to see posts on it
:)

Cheers,

Trebor