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reforming English

글쓴이: amigueo, 2022년 1월 8일

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amigueo (프로필 보기) 2022년 1월 8일 오후 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 (프로필 보기) 2022년 1월 9일 오후 2:49:39

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 (프로필 보기) 2022년 1월 22일 오후 8:29:01

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

Roberto12 (프로필 보기) 2022년 1월 23일 오후 9:55:28

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 (프로필 보기) 2022년 1월 24일 오전 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 (프로필 보기) 2022년 1월 24일 오후 2:25:40

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 (프로필 보기) 2022년 2월 20일 오전 9:09:44

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

Altebrilas (프로필 보기) 2022년 2월 28일 오후 11:13:38

What about Shavian alphabet?

bartlett22183 (프로필 보기) 2022년 3월 2일 오후 6:12:33

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 (프로필 보기) 2022년 3월 5일 오후 9:52:05

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

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