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To: varmintman

>>It should be utterly unambiguous and 100% phonetic. That means that if you hear a word spoken you know how to spell it and, if you see a word written, you know how to pronounce it other than for the question of which syllable if any is stressed.

And when dialects are added in... this “new” system self-destructs (think of listening to some inbred Boston native pronounce “park the car” as /pahk da cah/ . Standard orthography was put in place precisely to avoid all the duplicate spellings generated by dialects.


45 posted on 01/31/2014 1:19:01 AM PST by vikingd00d (nulla seruitus turpior est quam uoluntaria -- Seneca)
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To: vikingd00d

It’s been tried. George Bernard Shaw willed his estate to change the English language to a purely phonetic spelling but the administrators decided to apply his millions elsewhere.


46 posted on 01/31/2014 1:59:53 AM PST by Liberty Wins ( The average lefty is synapse challenged)
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