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reforming English

amigueo,2022年1月8日の

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amigueo (プロフィールを表示) 2022年1月8日 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 (プロフィールを表示) 2022年1月9日 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 (プロフィールを表示) 2022年1月22日 20:29:01

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

Roberto12 (プロフィールを表示) 2022年1月23日 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 (プロフィールを表示) 2022年1月24日 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 (プロフィールを表示) 2022年1月24日 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 (プロフィールを表示) 2022年2月20日 9:09:44

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

Altebrilas (プロフィールを表示) 2022年2月28日 23:13:38

What about Shavian alphabet?

bartlett22183 (プロフィールを表示) 2022年3月2日 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 (プロフィールを表示) 2022年3月5日 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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