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reforming English

从 amigueo, 2022年1月8日

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语言: Español

amigueo (显示个人资料) 2022年1月8日下午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 (显示个人资料) 2022年1月9日下午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 (显示个人资料) 2022年1月22日下午8:29:01

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

Roberto12 (显示个人资料) 2022年1月23日下午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 (显示个人资料) 2022年1月24日上午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 (显示个人资料) 2022年1月24日下午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 (显示个人资料) 2022年2月20日上午9:09:44

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

Altebrilas (显示个人资料) 2022年2月28日下午11:13:38

What about Shavian alphabet?

bartlett22183 (显示个人资料) 2022年3月2日下午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 (显示个人资料) 2022年3月5日下午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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