Saundspel, the phonology forum, is a discussion group for those interested in spelling by sound, applied linguistics, writing systems, history, and spelling reform.
If you have a language related question, post it here. If you post something that is not language related, you will be banned from the group.
The Saundspel discussion group was originally set up to build a machine readable IPA analog for transcribing English speech. SAMPA* was available but not designed as a writing system. ENgliS , Unigraf, and similar notations are about as close as we have come to finding an easily read and typed way to represent 40+ sounds with a 26 character (ASCII) keyboard. An improved orthography for World English (see euro-english) remains a key but not the sole concern of this group. [more]
In a message dated 7/5/2008 9:29:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, sbett@... writes: SB : Which book is a waste of time, Wijk or Chomsky? comske. yq wont it?
i rekol sum yirz ugo sumbude hq wuz ofrring u reform sistum xat inklqdid oltrnating direksn. he ma hav evn mad u program xat mad it hapin. it wud be kql if it
PAUL S: I think this may be the way tu go, sins peeple will need tu be liturut in TS for a long time. A parulel script will poze no thret, yet be welcumed at