Re: English notation

John Cowan wrote:

> This is in essence the philosophy of Regularized Inglish: search the
> archives for that phrase for my previous postings on it.  The principle
> of RI is, for each letter/digraph/trigraph/tetragraph
> representing a given range of pronunciations, to choose a few
> common ones (ideally one) to retain, and change all the words that have
> different pronunciations.  Thus "ea" only as in "heal"; "bread" becomes
> "bred", and "great" becomes "grait".  It makes reading easy, though
> writing is only somewhat easier than at present: you still have to
> remember "strait" vs. "straight".  After all, we do far more reading
> than writing.
This is by far the most realistic model of an English spelling reform so
far.  Congrats.  As for searching the archives:  Isn't the Yahoo!Group
archive defunct?


-- Christian Thalmann

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