Re: Yûomaewec: Example and evaluation

En réponse à Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>:

>
> >Hze aplikaeccin ov Okhim'z Raezi en eotc caes ez obveis.
>
> There, you have "raezi" for razor. According to previous posts, you
> have
> |i| for schwa. Do you pronounce the word something like [rejz@]? For
> me,
> it definitely ends in [zr=].
>
IIRC it's a spelling reform for his own dialect, and admittedly so. I guess his
dialect is non-rhotic.

> 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 ;))) .

> But so would a tremendous amount of digraphs. English ends up like
> Maggel, with the written words having little to do with pronunciation
> as
> a practical matter. (I couldn't do anything like that, I'm afraid.)
> People manage, though. Some do.
>
You just need to be completely insane and let your true self express its wishes
without the barrier of common sense ;))) . Actually, being French, English,
Irish or Tibetan may be enough ;)))) (note that I'm only referring to their
respective orthographies ;))) ).

Christophe.

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