Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>Well, as you may remember, Danny Wier's message about languages with
>orthographies as incongruent as possible reminded me of a language I
invented
>nearly 10 years ago, in reaction to the Gaelic language I have just
discovered
(Snip lots of wild and crazy stuff)
>(what is nice about such an
orthography is that you can change a lot in the pronunciation without
changing
the written words :)) >
Aha! The secret of English orthography.
>
>So what do you think? Should I revive this language (making some changes,
like
>adding some new sounds like [I] and [G] :)), and changing some things in
the
>verbal system) or is it hopeless? And what do you think of the orthography?
A very amusing and utterly perverse orthography. :-))) I suppose one could
get used to it......
I am reminded of young Frankenstein discovering his father's
notes.......Revive it at your peril :-)))) (But why not??)