Re: French reform (Re: C.Thalmann, & #1)

Peter Kolb wrote:

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>Answering #1:
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># 1 wrote:
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>>>Peter Kolb wrote:
>>>...
>>>Why does |a| represent the sound /a/ in "alors" but that in "autre", |a|
>>>is /o/?
>>>
>>>Why do you use two representation for the phoneme /E/? |ae| in "est" and
>>>|ai| in "vert"
>>>...
>>>
>>>
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>Why these? Just ad-hoc rationalisation. There has been a number of spelling
>reform attempts over the centuries but mostly minor changes. Some examples
>from the 1990 reforms, levraut->levreau, punch->ponch, and similar minor
>adjustments.
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>What I am suggesting is a rationalisation of French spelling by mapping
>words to a transliterated form and remaking the word from that form. My book
>on French ("French: How to Speak and Write It" by Joseph Lemaître) is what I
>was using as reference in a rough-and-ready manner.
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>An example from the book is Parlez Français /pahr-lay fraN-sai/ could be
>changed to Parlae Fransai /pahr-lay frahN-sai/.
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Yes, but that really is biased, to an English perspective.  I like the
way, personally, that French has an infinite number of ways to write
[e].  Otherwise I couldn't differentiate between 'parlez', 'parler',
'parlé', and 'parlée'

>Some more for the why-reform:
>He is sitting:  Il est assis    /ay-tah-see/  -> **Ae tasï, **Aet asï?
>She is sitting: Elle est assise /ay-tah-seez/ -> **Ae tasïs, **Aet asïs?
>Why so different a spelling but so same a sound?
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Erm, I suspect that it's assuming you know how to pronounce 'il' and
'elle', and so is skipping to the verbal construction.  'est' being
pronounced [et].

>He is running:  Il court    /coor/   -> **Cör,   **A cör /Ah coor/.
>She is walking: Elle marche /mahrsh/ -> **March, **A march /Ah Mahrsh/.
>Where are elle and il?
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See above.

>>>Writing for English and French is like for Chinese in a more little way,
>>>those who write the same dont say the same but writing the same helps for
>>>the comprehention... Don't you think?
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>>>
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>Yes I think but I don't think you were trying to ask me that. What can I say
>to the above paragraph? PardoN?
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He's saying that French has innumerable different dialectes.