Re: USAGE: front vowel tensing [was: English notation]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Herman Miller wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:07:24 -0700, Frank George Valoczy
> <valoczy@...> wrote:
>
> >Has anyone ever thought, it might be simpler to scrap the Latin-based
> >English script and used instead Cyrillic or Glagolitic or Devanagari or
> >whatever?
>
> The problem with adapting Cyrillic or some other natlang script is that
> English has some pretty rare sounds, like /D/ and /r=/, that would need to
> be written with modifications of existing characters or arbitrary
> substitutions. The Shaw alphabet or Visible Speech might be suitable. But
> the guidelines for using the Shaw alphabet are vague (given the differences
> in phoneme inventories between dialects) and the Visible Speech characters
> are too similar in appearance to read easily. My Ljoerr alphabet would be
> suitable for the consonants, but you'd need diacritics on some of the
> vowels.
Serbian is written with Cyrillic and represents /r=/ wuite well, simply by
using "P" (Latin: R) e.g. "KPK" (Latin: KRK) = [kr=k]

And with all the languages in Russia written with Cyrillic, I'm certain
every English phoneme will find it's letter. Even /D/.

Cyrillic can work, I think quite well.

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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