... langwijes. ... to ... heckling ... ever ... fashionable, ... langwijes. ... The idea that the benefits of language uniformity outstrip the losses seems...
To Spelling Reform Enthusiasts: After reading Steve Bett's email of 12-29-06, subject: "Without SR, we will eventually lose phonics," and Jim Carters email of...
... <paulnlinda@> ... uther ... of ... This is why I continue to prefer English as a means of communication. (But is it 'my own?'). Menny ... life ... Longer? ...
To Spelling Reform Enthusiasts: After reading Steve Bett's email of 12-29-06, subject: "Without SR, we will eventually lose phonics," and Jim Carters email of...
... Hw cn u on'stly sá u dónt néd 2 nó TS 2 spel in BC, wen u hv 2 nó TS pat'rns 1st 2 spel in it? Évn do i fél BC is betr dan HS in dt it luks mor lýk...
Posted on alt.eng.usage (SB) I think you are looking for an "ear" vocabulary rather than a "eye" vocabulary. The eye vocabulary during the first 4 years of ...
Hi gang, I show the 16 word sentence as automatically converted by Bobdot: The sìcölujè prufësur wuz disupöinted bí the iksësiv disuplin recumënded on...
Welcome to the SaundSpel list on Yahoo Groups! (view this file in RTF to see fancy fonts and better formatting) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/ ...
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Guys, I have a friend who would like to learn more on a technical level about phonetics in general, and English pronunciation in particular. (He is using the...
There is some interesting info on phonics at www.spelrite.org Alan Beale <biljir@...> wrote: Guys, I have a friend who would like to learn more on a...
Bob, I am not sure what we do with these variant spellings. The usual critique is that we can't agree. pyschology professor excessive discipline BD:...
MIT has a free course on linguistics which includes phonetics. There are some other useful URL's listed in the BASICS file in the file section of saundspel. ...
Welcome to the SaundSpel list on Yahoo Groups! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/welcome3.rtf <../../../files/welcome3.rtf> Click on the above to...
A simple phonetic spelling of USA English accent is at truespel.com. It's designed to be as close to English tradspel as possible. It uses no special ...
Lauback said that English was the world's worse spelled language. George Geiger disagress. Tibetan is worse. As far as I know or can find out, *all* languages...
"...the idea that complex, seemingly irrational spelling rules exclude and/or identify some moral underclass is arguably the best, most outstanding unspoken ...
Today I was in a position of informally and silently assessing, not for the first time, not an applicant, but the facilitator of a small mental health...
Hi Steve, I have always used the argument you make in favor of a dictionary key spelling for teaching reading rapidly. The experience with UNIFON would seem to...
Bob, Is there any particular dictionary that you use to determine such things as which syllable is stressed? The old dictionaries used the macron and the breve...
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Jan 6, 2007 7:41 am
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... I agre smwt wid wt u sá. It wd b gud if we úsd 1 spelq 4 éch wrd úsbl 4 ol veriázns ov spókn English. Hwevr, 2 du dt, u wínd up hvq 2 memrís d...
Gus, You seem to think that unless there is more than one way to represent a sound you are stuck with learning 1000's of word signs. I don't think that ...
Steve Bett
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Jan 6, 2007 5:03 pm
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Bob, Phonodot seems to be working in unchartered territory. You read the sound-marked letters but write with traditional letters. In Unifon, you read the...
Steve Bett
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Jan 6, 2007 5:35 pm
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Hi Steve, Other teaching methods show markings without requiring that the student always write them. In The Writing Road to Reading the entire Ayers list has...
A slight followup to my previous post - two vowel codes were accidentally left out: «complÝ», «embrŸó» - Ý represents y when pronounced as long i, at...
Hi Bob, The group might be interested in a comparison of two different conversions of the passage from the Bible: the bobdot version, and the NuEnglish...
Hi Gang, I have something wrong in the fonts regarding the NuEnglish conversion. Sorry, Bob Bode ... the ... In ... him ... the ... of ... wuz ... him, ... ...
... I jst fél dt if we hv jst 1 wá ov spelq, rigardles ov dýlect, pépl wil hv 2 nó d dýlect dt dt spelq repr'snts as wel as dr ón. Dis cn cos sm d néd...
Yes. It is the complete unfairness of the TS, which eliminates so many of our children from a full and happy life quite unnecessarily which drives th need for...
