Re: Yûomaewec: Example and evaluation

Christophe Grandsire sekalge:
>IIRC it's a spelling reform for his own dialect, and admittedly so. I
guess his
>dialect is non-rhotic.
Ah. I missed that. These days, I have a brain like a... thingie. *You*
know. Put water through it. Seive, that's it.

>> The frequency of diacritics is an obstacle to this system's use, I
>> think.
>Only for monoglot English people, who never used diacritics. About
everybody
>else does ;))) .
If anyone used this spelling reform, who would use it most?

bnathyuw sekalge:
>i think the reform wouldseem particularly natural to
>people in essex ( except of course people in essex
>don't need to be able to spell in the first place ;')
Why wouldn't they?

H.S. Teoh sekalge:
>Back when the nasality
>tilde was still a superscript, you could get 4 diacritics sitting on top
>of a single vowel like a little totem pole. :-P
That would be a sort of x on a tilde, right? Or, at least, the macron and
acute accent combined to make a backwards lambda. Or are macrons the
other way? I'm thinking of circumflexes.

Laimes,
Wright.

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