Received: from odin.diku.dk (daemon@odin.diku.dk [130.225.96.221]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA21797 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:50:01 -0400 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by odin.diku.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA27226 for conlang-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:27:41 -0400 Received: from mail-e.bcc.ac.uk (mail-e.bcc.ac.uk [144.82.100.25]) by odin.diku.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA27202 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 22:27:22 +0100 Received: from link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk by mail-e.bcc.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 25 Oct 1995 21:27:05 +0000 From: ucleaar Message-Id: <35856.9510252127@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> To: conlang@diku.dk Subject: Re: CONLANG: Yet unuther simplufyd speling sistum. Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 21:27:02 +0000 Sender: owner-conlang@diku.dk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ucleaar Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Wed Oct 25 17:50:06 1995 X-From-Space-Address: owner-conlang@diku.dk [ht = thorn, hd = edh] Jon Cauan raitz, tu Timohti Milr: > What I don't like about your system is that it deviates too greatly from > traditional English spellings. All of my vowel spellings are those actually > used in English, simply regularized and made consistent. There is no > bizarre and un-English "ii" and "uu". Furthermore, the Vowel Shift is taken > as a fact, and the vowels irrevocably have their new pronunciations, with > no attempt to restore the non-English (or pre-1450) choices. On hd uhdr hand, hd canonical iuus v hd rouman alfabet iz in Latin: cultjurali, it iz Latin hdt defainz hd canonical fonetic valiuu for iitj letr. And v cors, huen Inglisj speling woz establisjd it woz esentjali hd Latin modl hdt woz foloud. Bizaar and un-Inglisj ii and uu can bi justifaid az riturning Inglisj orhtografi tu its origjinz and tu its iuuropiian piirz. iorz, in hiz oun ecselent orhtografi, And