So Mr. Wijk would say his name is said "Veek", or perhaps "Viek" as in "pie". This would not be intuitive for English speaking folk. Goes to show we need a...
What do peepl think of the folowng capitlyzashn rulz? a) Propr Nounz shud hav dubl capitlizayshn az below (optional: at clause boundaries) SimplifieD SpellinG...
... Az I sed before, wun thing to understand about Regularized Inglish iz that it iz not rule-based. I wood describe writing a wurd in Regularized Inglish az a...
Jean, Steve nd Toby A tu staij riform iz not th soluushn to implimenting riform bicoz eevn th furst staij wil b cnfruntd with strong risistans. Saispel iz a...
Roy Blain
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Aug 1, 2003 10:56 am
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... How terribly ugly! Why should people suffer such ugliness to help out software? If the convention is for use in specially prepared input for such...
c now replaces k completely ch now replaces c in curc etc. The reason is that in the preceding Saispel scheme, too many changes had to be made from c to k ...
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Aug 1, 2003 12:19 pm
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My spelling rèform haz gon thrue sum chaenjez laetly. Ferst off, I'v èlimminated dhâ rule dhat sez g = j (dZ) before i, e, and y. I did dhis in faver uv...
Jean, Steve nd Toby A tu staij riform iz not th soluushn to implimenting riform bicoz eevn th furst staij wil b cnfruntd with strong risistans. Saispel iz a...
Roy Blain
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Aug 1, 2003 12:55 pm
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Toby, Ttanc u for th tip on xpanding th dicshnri. Parag frm India wurcs with me on th programing siid, so I wil took (fonemik) (tauk - antifonemic) to him . I...
Roy Blain
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Aug 1, 2003 1:01 pm
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Aug 1, 2003 1:15 pm
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... I think it's pretty ;-). I particularly think the proper nouns look nice (I do in this case actually). Here are a couple of reasons to help software...
Roy, I agree with your focus and goal. The concern should be for the beginning reader and for the ESL student, not for those who have already mastered...
Roy, You are the first to object to the two stage reform. This is a little odd since it fits well with using Saispel as the i.t.a. and pronunciation guide. ...
... cost ov cnsistnsi nd fonemisi. Biginrz in ther bilionz shud b aur furst cnsurn, not th Trad adeps. I just worry that if there is a clear choice between a...
Paul, There is a special rule regarding the representation of schwi in a prefix. bicoz or bycoz is replaced with because where the unstressed e refers to...
Paul, Please elaborate. There is a conflict in the sense that the rules are syllable specific. You have to know how many syllables before you can determine...
... Gus, You can convert any word to truespel by using the converter below. Tradwerd "fiesta" would be truespeld "feeyyestu" where the syllables are "fee"...
Hi Gang, Some of the things I am reading remind me of the difficulties I had with digraphs early in my attempts to produce a good respell technique. The...
Hi Alan and Gus, The following gives at least a hint at what can be done in the way of respell by making use of a set of existing conventions, but requiring ...
I could easily live with "Bobjoy's" re-spellings if books/newspapers began to appear with this spelling system. Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone -...
In my pursunul âpinyun, mie sistm ûzez existing ruelz much more offn dhan Bob's. Besiedz, his ûzez tue menny axsented letturz, and lwcks less like TO dhan...
Bill, The press release was posted about a month ago. You can go back thru the archive or wait until I locate it. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel I...
Dyslexia across languages and writing systems. The United States has twice as many dyslexics as Italy. A new study says complicated English spelling is to...
... It seems to me that both ITA and Unifon are far more widely known than this alphabet, and would be better vehicles for getting the reform alphabet foot in...
