Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform

Gary Shannon scripsit:

> Secondly, a diacritical mark can mark a syllable as
> having its vowel suppressed so that ugly English
> consonant clusters can be represented as syllable
> clusters with vowels supressed. s'kool (school)
Okay, now you have passed from syllabary to abugida; rendering English with
an existing or purpose-built abugida is perfectly plausible.  In particular,
Canadian Syllabics provides a rich resource of available letters; although
it supports only four vowels, it would be possible to repurpose some of the
initial-consonant distinctions to encode English vowels four at a time;
there are over 100 such consonants available, so that should be no problem.

Alternatively, Indic or Ethiopic would be possible as well.

(I think it's a nice feature that the "vowel carrier" letter of CS can have
the virama applied to it and then represents [?].)

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