Re: Not phonetic but ___???

Gary Shannon scripsit:

> I'm thinking about alphabets like "Shavian" where I
> can read something written by a speaker of British
> English and actually "hear" the British accent in what
> is written.  What I'm looking for is a way for a
> speaker of British English to transcribe a word so
> that a speaker of American English or Australian
> English would NOT "hear" the accent when he read it.
It's called a "diaphonematic orthography".  For example, in Breton
"zh" is used to represent the sound which is [z] in some dialects
and [h] in others.

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