Re: YAESRT: Enuf is Enuf: Some Peepl Thru with Dificult Spelingz

Tristan Alexander McLeay skrev:
> (Yet another English spelling reform thread.)
>
> On 11/07/06, Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:
>
>> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, daniel prohaska <danielprohaska@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Dalmátian Romanss and becám extinct when its lâst spéker Tuone
>> Udaina díd in
>> > a ród acsident in the 1890s.
>>
>> I must say I find this spelling rather easy to read, and less
>> ugly to the eye than many others I've seen.  "Díd" required a
>> double-take, though.
>
>
> I think Benct's got something similar going? Tho I think it looks more
> Old English/Icelandic. (Or am I confusing him with someone else? In
> which case I apologise to you both.)
I do.  See a rather unfinished sketch at
<http://wiki.frath.net/New_AngloSaxon_Spelling>.

I try to be panlectal by omitting some distinctions
like /&/~/A/.  I'm considering also to omit the three-
way /V/~/U/~/u/ distinction since it has a low functional
load and varying lexical incidence in different lects,
with some missing the /V/~/U/ distinction entirely.
If I've understood things right the /V/~/U/ distinction
arose when EME /u:/ < ME /o:/ shortened in some contexts
and formed a new phoneme with the [U]/[u] allophone of /V/.

And yes, my system aims at looking Old English.  That way
it at least doesn't look like a row of spelling mistakes
to my eyes.

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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

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