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To: varmintman

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.


6 posted on 01/30/2014 8:37:36 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

The same old standard phonetic alphabet (which you
would use to describe spelling “Wilson” as “Whiskey, India,
Lima, Sierra, Oscar, November”) has been used by aircraft
pilots, millitary personnel, and many others for many years
now. So, I finally decided to come up with something a bit
more “original” for those people who annoy me:

A Are N Nine
B Bee O Owe
C Cite P Pseudonym
D Double-U Q Queue
E Eye R Rap
F Five S Sea
G Genre T Tsunami
H Hoe U Understand?
I I V Vie
J Junta W Why
K Knot X Xylophone
L Lye Y You
M Me Z Zero

People don’t ask me to spell anything over the
phone anymore.


8 posted on 01/30/2014 8:40:08 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

Try reading all your English by what we’re taught is basic English phonetics.

Heck, try just my sentence there.


9 posted on 01/30/2014 8:42:18 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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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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