That spelling system makes me space-sick ;-) And how tedious is the trigraph <thh>? Why not a <dh> vs. <th> opposition analogous to <d> vs. <t>? Dan ... What...
The I/t/a/ An 2001 article from EYE magazine http://www.eyemagazine.com A logical system James Pitman proposed that children should learn to read with an...
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Jun 1, 2005 8:19 am
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David, The English writing system provides an unreliable guide to spelling and pronunciation. This makes it difficult to teach and learn. The problem with ...
Dr. Thomas Cable: Through a sequence of accidents beginning with the dialect that became Standard English, which was essentially London English. It was ...
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I doo not think Lundn woz th capitol ________________________________ From: saundspel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:saundspel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
Al'n Iethr, eethr: noe s'looshn heer, wee sae boeth, mae bee setl faur eethr. Haard to tel sumtiemz iv th eu iz long inuf to spel out. Dezrt iz OK. s'xesfuul. ...
... If the 'ou' is consistently used for your 'au' sound, such as in 'out', instead of 'au', I don't see why it couldn't be considered phonetic, especially as...
If you want to know the frequency of spelling phonemes in the dictionary, that would be truespel book one below. taam Truespel Book One: Analysis of the Sounds...
... I clicked on that, but it wanted money first.. Why don't you suggest the SSS get it and distribute it among its members as they've done other books...
Tim, I see few defects in New Spelling. Masha puts it down because there are a few sound signs which are not the most common in tradspel. uu for /u:/ is one...
Steve Bett
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Jun 2, 2005 5:01 pm
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Thanks Gus, After receiving the Jolly dictionary, I did request SSS sponsorship for distribution of my book to members. My book is more relevant to the cause ...
... I don't blame you! It looks to me they don't really care how many members they have. You can see that in the way they've been losing them. From roughly...
Dennis, The proposal is fine. Thanks for posting it. Do you have a name for it? You might try to answer the question as to why it is better than ALC...
... Spanish and Italian do very well with their few phonemes (only in the 20's). Why should we continue to have so many (more than 40) when we can really do...
... Don't know what to say Gus. truespel.com works for me. www.truespel.com works as well. We are working on it. It's hosted at a new site. Maybe there...
Tom, Gus wants you to put the url in the specific form that his (most) email readers use to recognize urls: http://www.truespel.com/ For a small investment of...
... From: "Steve Bett" <stbetta@...> To: <saundspel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:32 AM...
Dennis Smith
bj957@...
Jun 4, 2005 3:46 am
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Steve, Does space3456 have Dennis for a first name? I deserve no credit. It belongs to Space3456. Dennis. ... From: "Steve Bett" <stbetta@...> To:...
Dennis Smith
bj957@...
Jun 4, 2005 3:52 am
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... When I clicked on the above URL, using the Netscape 4.7 browser I use for e-mails, I automatically got: http://www.truespel.com/animate.js with a message: ...
... Well, I actually agree with you that 'au' is more familiar for the sound than 'ou' to non-native speakers of English - and so have used it in one of my...
Thanks Gus, I have no clue why "animate.js" pops up after truespel.com eddress in netscape 4.7. I'll pass this info to my web maker friend. Glad you got in ...
Tom, You requested that the SSS distribute your book at a time when there was a protest spearheaded by 5 members against buying books and distributing them to...
Gus and Ken, Good discusion. When you are not that concerned about precise representation of speech, phoneme mergers are possible. What you end up with is a...
... Thanks. ... I fail to see why speaking in a particular dialect is important as long as what's said is understood..(?). I feel what we need is more...
There is a Javascript applet on that page that your older browser choked on. The later browser either executed it correctly or ignored it, depending on...
I thought the purpose of Saundspel was to change the way we represented English speech in writing, not changing the way people speak. I think that changing...
