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reforming English

ya amigueo, 8 Januari 2022

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amigueo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 8 Januari 2022 12:21:13 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Januari 2022 2:49:39 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 22 Januari 2022 8:29:01 alasiri

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

Roberto12 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 23 Januari 2022 9:55:28 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 24 Januari 2022 4:57:52 asubuhi

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 24 Januari 2022 2:25:40 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 20 Februari 2022 9:09:44 asubuhi

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

Altebrilas (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 28 Februari 2022 11:13:38 alasiri

What about Shavian alphabet?

bartlett22183 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 2 Machi 2022 6:12:33 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 5 Machi 2022 9:52:05 alasiri

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

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