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reforming English

amigueo :lta, 8. tammikuuta 2022

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amigueo (Näytä profiilli) 8. tammikuuta 2022 12.21.13

I propose this discussion thread to present small or big reforms of English language.

I begin with a small detail.
"The maid ushered in- the visitor".
"in-". That is it.

IgorSokoloff (Näytä profiilli) 9. tammikuuta 2022 14.49.39

Vi estas admirinda ulo, kamarado Amigueo.
Eĉ okaze, se viaj kuraĝaj reformoj ne sukcesos, via glorinda nomo tute probable penetros la historion de nia-planeda lingvistiko.

Waat234 (Näytä profiilli) 22. tammikuuta 2022 20.29.01

A different letter for the silent gh and change the gh that makes the sound ‘f’ to ph.

Roberto12 (Näytä profiilli) 23. tammikuuta 2022 21.55.28

I don't like having words of one letter in any language, so I would replace the pronoun "I" with its middle-English variant "ih". The pronunciation stays the same. I also dislike the indefinite article "a", but it's hard to think of a replacement. Maybe "ae"? Or maybe "an" on the understanding that the N is mostly silent?

nornen (Näytä profiilli) 24. tammikuuta 2022 4.57.52

Hadn't OE ic/ich already become I in ME?

Why should ih be pronounced /aɪ/ and not /iç/ ? Where does the diphthong come from and why is the /ç/ silent?

Roberto12 (Näytä profiilli) 24. tammikuuta 2022 14.25.40

I didn't expect a reply, lol.
nornen:Hadn't OE ic/ich already become I in ME?
You may be right. I was just repeating what I read on wiktionary here
Why should ih be pronounced /aɪ/ and not /iç/ ? Where does the diphthong come from and why is the /ç/ silent?
Modern English doesn't have /ç/. Nor does it use the digraph "ih", so I guess it can be defined however you want. And the diphthong comes from the Great Vowel Shift.

Blua_Monto (Näytä profiilli) 20. helmikuuta 2022 9.09.44

Time to demolish all the irregular verbs.
goed, builded, sleeped…
Too bad, this will let some synonyms arise, like "seed".

Altebrilas (Näytä profiilli) 28. helmikuuta 2022 23.13.38

What about Shavian alphabet?

bartlett22183 (Näytä profiilli) 2. maaliskuuta 2022 18.12.33

The problem with spelling reforms is whose English? English pronunciation varies, even somewhat widely, around the world, but with only minor, almost trivial, exceptions, it is written the same way. To use something like Shavian would either codify one pronunciation or else would lead to variant spellings.

nornen (Näytä profiilli) 5. maaliskuuta 2022 21.52.05

Would that really be so big a problem, if you stick to phonemes and disregard allophones and mergers?

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