Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform

Start perhaps with using the normal vowelset, but with
an emphasis on world (Latin/Spanish) pronunciations.

So, the
cat, beet, fire, dog, butt,
sounds are subclassified to the global
call, bed, machine, doe, butane, sounds

Dealing with the vowels first seems necessary -
perhaps even using slighly modified vowel characters
to represent specific inflections.

As far as syllabaries - I like Korean, rather than
Japanese for its cleverish tripling of letters into
-clusters. Keep in mind that your'e locking in some
normative tendencies for vowel pronunciation, which
contradicts the reason for having vowel morphophones
(?) in the first place.

SC
symbolproject.org

--- Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> Every once and a while spelling reform rears its
> ugly
> head, and it was one of the first things I looked at
> when starting my project to create mutant English.
>
> But there is a way to _get_ spelling reform without
> _doing_ spelling reform: Replace the Romanji
> Aplhabet
> with a syllabary.
>
> That's raises the question, just how large would a
> syllabary have to be to semi-accurately represent
> all
> existing English words?
>
> Is there such a thing as a vowel-first syllabary?
> Some preliminary dinking around seems to show that
> vowel-first symbols (like "ak" and "or" instead of
> "ka" and "ro") might work better for English.
>
> --gary

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

Reply