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 VAA23466 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 21:44:40 -0400 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by odin.diku.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA04157 for conlang-outgoing; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 21:21:32 -0400 Received: from locke.ccil.org (cowan@[205.164.136.88]) by odin.diku.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id CAA04149 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 02:21:20 +0100 Received: (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) id VAA20114 for conlang@diku.dk; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 21:24:03 -0400 From: John Cowan Message-Id: <199510240124.VAA20114@locke.ccil.org> Subject: CONLANG: Yet unuther simplufyd speling sistum. To: conlang@diku.dk (Conlang List) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 21:24:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2021 Sender: owner-conlang@diku.dk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Mon Oct 23 21:44:43 1995 X-From-Space-Address: owner-conlang@diku.dk Oh noh! Heez trying too doo it ugen! Thiss sistum of speling Ingglish is baised on the cunventionul sistum, but has un underlying phohneemick unalusiss. Itss ment too loock lyck speling as don by u persun whoo cant spel veree wel. The sistum distinggwishes beetween fynul and non-fynul spelings of certin phohneems. In udition, thair ar certun cunventions that yu just have too lern. Heer ar exampuls uve the vowul phohneems: non-fynul fynul old new old new cat cat set set sit sit pot pot cut cut caught cawt law law foot foot goon goon true troo farther farther far far father fahther ah ah sail sail say say seen seen see see sown sohn so soh news nyuz new nyu sight syt sigh sy house houss how how boil boil boy boy about ubout the the person persun sower soher Noht that thee "oo" that is IPA [u] and thee "oo" that is IPA [U] ar not distinggwished, nohr ar "u" for [@] and "u" for [V]. The consununts "b", "d", "f", "h", "l", "m", "n", "p", "t", "w", "y" (whitch is awlsoo u vowel) werk as yood ixpect. "ch" has the finul form "tch". "j" has the finul form "dje" (sylunt "e"). "g" is ohnlee the stop. "c" is yuzd in historicul puzitions for "k" or "s". "x" is yuzd in historicul puzitions for "ks" or "gz". "k" has the finul form "ck". "th" repreezents both voiced und unvoiced phohneems, but is ritun "the" when fynul and voiced. "sh" is whut yood ixpect. "v" has the finul form "ve" (sylunt "e" ugen/ugain). "zh" is the voiced counterpart. "ng" is ritun three wais: "fingger", "singer", "dainjer". "s" is ritun "ss" when fynul. "wh" repreezents unvoiced "w" eevun thoh not awl dyalects unvoice it. The morphohlojicul endings "-s (-es)", "-ed", "-tion", "-sion" ar unchainjed. Noht that the sistum reeflects a rotic dyalect: "part", not "paht", "gerl", not "gul". Hohpfulee, non-rotic speekers wil bee aibul to handul it as wel. Whut doo yawl thingk? -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.