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Real alphabet for English?
http://bearfabrique.org/EnglishAlphabet/English_Alphabet.htm ^

Posted on 01/30/2014 8:26:08 PM PST by varmintman

The whole world knows that English spelling is a sick joke. If English is to be the international language of business and commerce, then a rational alphabet and a rational system of spelling need to be devised for it, and the present hodgepodge system needs to be jettissoned altogether. The inordinate amount of time spent by foreigners and English speaking children alike learning our present system of spelling would be better of spent on more reasonable goals.

A reasonable system of spelling for English would be based on the following ideas:

The following should serve as an example of what is needed.....

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Computers/Internet; Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alphabet; englishlanguage; phoneticspelling
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To: alexander_busek
Well, "ä," "ö," and "ü" were originally digraphs ("ae," "oe," and "ue"), until the trailing "e" was reduced in size and move atop the leading vowel, where it eventually degenerated into the "Umlaut."

So tonight, we'll split a schnitzel... and start on the German lessons again.

We should. You must be getting rusty.

We'll just have to work at it twice as hard from now on. Das ist gut?

Sehr gut.

And the first thing we're gonna do is brush up on the umlaut.

Das ist wunderbar.

61 posted on 01/31/2014 9:40:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dinoparty
If English is to be the international language of business and commerce

As opposed to the present Latin?

62 posted on 01/31/2014 10:34:11 AM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: null and void
Lemme ax you how you noticed dat?

Iza lisnen to some songs...Soul an Blues...and dat shit was gitten all up in my ears an stuff.
Yo, I mean...it like shizzled my dizzle. A'ight?

63 posted on 01/31/2014 12:41:49 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: Procyon
And after generations are taught the simplified spelling will they be able to read older books or will they be lost to the general culture or treated as mere quaint poems and prose like Chaucer’s works?

Older works will be converted. Then they'll be easier to read...

64 posted on 01/31/2014 5:41:52 PM PST by varmintman
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To: dangus
I don’t get it. Why would we need letters for sounds that don’t exist in English (Spanish N~, trilling R, etc.)? None of the major languages have separate letters for trilling Rs and English-style Rs.

My own taste would be to include two or three kinds of things, Spanish N and umlauted German vowels which don't exist in English but which are commonly encountered. Obviously no one person could enforce such a thing and some major group effort would have to be involved. The alphabet suggested here is just that, a suggestion.

65 posted on 01/31/2014 5:44:45 PM PST by varmintman
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To: GeronL
If English is to be the international language of business and commerce

It pretty much is already

I might should have used the word "remain" rather than "be"...

66 posted on 01/31/2014 5:47:03 PM PST by varmintman
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To: dangus
In the third year, publik akseptanse...

Why the 'e' on 'akseptans??

67 posted on 01/31/2014 5:49:40 PM PST by varmintman
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To: Vroomfondel
Just need to punch up the spelling of Shakespeare a bit: “2 B or not 2 B, that is the question”

You'd still want a hard E (with the line over it) for 'be'.

68 posted on 01/31/2014 6:45:44 PM PST by varmintman
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