Re: Yûomaewec: Example and evaluation

 --- Christopher Wright <faceloran@...> wrote: >
Len disothei huri Adrian Morgan, im sekem:
> Your spelling reform is quite interesting. However,
> it's obviously not
> intended for my dialect. You would seem not to have
> /r=/, making it into
> a schwa.
>
i rather like having a spelling reform from a
non-rhotic accent. i once tried to write something in
shavian and got stuck as it didn't allow half my
phonemes. i had to approximate 'beer' /bI:/ to /bi@r/
or something . . . as for 'flower' /fl&:@/ . . . !

it also didn't make the distinction between the vowels
in 'know' /n@U/ or /nVU/ and 'goal' /gOUl~/, which in
my accent is phonemic ( /h@UlIi/=sacred,
/hOUlIi/=threadbare ).

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 ;')
), where /@/ tends to [i] naturally. horrible comes
out as /"hor\ibUw/, where /i/ falls somewhere between
cardinal [I] and [i].

bn

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