Help wanted: Énglis´ spellin,
From: | Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...> |
Date: | Monday, May 15, 2000, 23:51 |
Well.
Î'v bén sendin, some postin`s on a revîsd, non-ASCII, Énglis´ spellin`
refo,rm. Î hav some problems wiþ accents, mainly becås î'm not a nativ
Énglis´ spêk,r and ðe fonètic gides î hav in hand ár Spanis´-Énglis´
dict`,naris cùv,rin´ mainly Brittis´ Énglis´.
Î want my spellin` tó be as accent free as possible (not havin`
ó,n-simb,l-ó,n-sound in my gouls, it helps).
Î g`nô ðat mény sounds have ó,n-ó,n correspòndanç, like Brittis´ /@U/ vs
Amèrican /ow/, h`ic´ ár îð,r "o", "ô" or "ou" in my sistem. Î'm mainly
worrid h`en suc´ correspòndanç is brok,n.
Besides î hav not þink yet in ål posibìlitis fo,r /S/ and /Z/. Cood somó,n
send a list of posib,l orþografis (wið examp,ls) ov posible /S/ and /Z/ (or
eny oðer tricky sound), boþ ûsu,l spellin`s and ó,n wo,rd spellin`s.
Þank y'ål!
-- Carlos Th
notes:
n` is eng
g` is yogh
t` is t hook.
h` is hu ligature
,l ,n and ,r are the letters with and apostrophe bellow
c´, g´ and s´ are the letters with acute