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reforming English

от amigueo, 8 января 2022 г.

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amigueo (Показать профиль) 8 января 2022 г., 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 (Показать профиль) 9 января 2022 г., 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 (Показать профиль) 22 января 2022 г., 20:29:01

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

Roberto12 (Показать профиль) 23 января 2022 г., 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 (Показать профиль) 24 января 2022 г., 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 (Показать профиль) 24 января 2022 г., 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 (Показать профиль) 20 февраля 2022 г., 9:09:44

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

Altebrilas (Показать профиль) 28 февраля 2022 г., 23:13:38

What about Shavian alphabet?

bartlett22183 (Показать профиль) 2 марта 2022 г., 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 (Показать профиль) 5 марта 2022 г., 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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