Monday, April 12, 2004, 22:33 GMT
Jim, came up with one spelling reform proposal that is really illegible. I have some objections to his first system besides the fact that it's really crazy and illegible.
Jim, If your curious as to what those objections are, have a look at this thread.
http://pub103.ezboard.com/feuropa2frm40.showMessage?topicID=37.topic
And about this example on this thread, Respelling ''scared'' as ''scered'' is a terrible idea and it's worse than the original spelling. ''scered'' looks like it should rhyme with ''beard''. I'd say leaving it as it is is better. Itch also is using ''u'' for both [u] and [^]. That's not such a good idea, using a letter for two sounds. We'd have a bunch of homographs, put-putt, could-cud, look-luck, etc. If your proposing a spelling reform then why spell two sounds the same way. Itch is respelling ''proper'' as ''propa''. I think that removing any ''r's'' from any words is a very bad idea. Most English speakers {me included} pronounce the ''r's'' at the ends of words. Itch is keeping the magic ''e'' rule. I think that in any phonemic spelling reform system, that keeping the magic ''e'' might not be such a good idea because the magic ''e'' doesn't always work. What about ''find''. Of course, you could respell it ''finde'' but if you did that then ''finder'' would be spelled the same as it is now. What about ''cinder''. You'd have ''finder'' and ''sinder''. That's not such a good idea. Of course, you could say you would take care of that by using ''y'' in those words like you showed us on your proposal. ''fynd'' and ''mynd''. But then, what about ''paint'' and ''ghost''?
Also, if you keeped the magic ''e'' then you would keep ''poke'' spelled as it is. What about ''poked''? ''poked'' is pronounced [pOukt]. So it would come out as ''poket''. Doesn't that look odd and even illegible. And also if you are keeping the magic ''e'' and it's a phonemic system then you would also have to spell ''cried'' and ''flied'' similar, ''kride'' and ''flide''. don't they look really odd? and the words, days, pies, goes, meadows, menus, and fries would have to be respelled ''daze'', ''pize'', ''goze'', ''meddoze'', ''mennuze'', and ''frize''. Don't those look really odd. I think that in a phonemic system keeping the magic ''e'' is not a very good idea. There would be many odd looking words.
Jim, If your curious as to what those objections are, have a look at this thread.
http://pub103.ezboard.com/feuropa2frm40.showMessage?topicID=37.topic
And about this example on this thread, Respelling ''scared'' as ''scered'' is a terrible idea and it's worse than the original spelling. ''scered'' looks like it should rhyme with ''beard''. I'd say leaving it as it is is better. Itch also is using ''u'' for both [u] and [^]. That's not such a good idea, using a letter for two sounds. We'd have a bunch of homographs, put-putt, could-cud, look-luck, etc. If your proposing a spelling reform then why spell two sounds the same way. Itch is respelling ''proper'' as ''propa''. I think that removing any ''r's'' from any words is a very bad idea. Most English speakers {me included} pronounce the ''r's'' at the ends of words. Itch is keeping the magic ''e'' rule. I think that in any phonemic spelling reform system, that keeping the magic ''e'' might not be such a good idea because the magic ''e'' doesn't always work. What about ''find''. Of course, you could respell it ''finde'' but if you did that then ''finder'' would be spelled the same as it is now. What about ''cinder''. You'd have ''finder'' and ''sinder''. That's not such a good idea. Of course, you could say you would take care of that by using ''y'' in those words like you showed us on your proposal. ''fynd'' and ''mynd''. But then, what about ''paint'' and ''ghost''?
Also, if you keeped the magic ''e'' then you would keep ''poke'' spelled as it is. What about ''poked''? ''poked'' is pronounced [pOukt]. So it would come out as ''poket''. Doesn't that look odd and even illegible. And also if you are keeping the magic ''e'' and it's a phonemic system then you would also have to spell ''cried'' and ''flied'' similar, ''kride'' and ''flide''. don't they look really odd? and the words, days, pies, goes, meadows, menus, and fries would have to be respelled ''daze'', ''pize'', ''goze'', ''meddoze'', ''mennuze'', and ''frize''. Don't those look really odd. I think that in a phonemic system keeping the magic ''e'' is not a very good idea. There would be many odd looking words.