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Revised English Alphabet

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 6:35

A - a
B - b
(C -c has been removed because it is useless)
D - d
E - e
F - f
G - g
H - h
I - i
J - j
K - k
L - l
M - m
N - n
O - o
P - p
(Q - q has been removed because it is useless)
R - r
S - s
T - t
U - u
V - v
W - w (renamed "wynn")
(X - x has been removed because it is useless)
Y - y
Z - z
Þ - þ (thorn)(this letter makes the "th" sound as in "the")
Ʃ - ʃ (esh)(this letter makes the "sh" sound as in "should")
Ŋ - ŋ (eng)(this letter makes the "ng" sound as in "singing")


Am I right or am I right???

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 7:58

Actually, ð makes the "th" sound in "the."  Þ makes the "th" sound in "think."

And if you're really going to revise the alphabet, you should revise the spelling first.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 13:43

owned

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 15:01

Spoilers: It's not the alphabet that needs revising, it's the phonology and orthography.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 16:05

You forgot the interrobang ‽

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 4:24

>>1
dont take out "q"
just make it so that you dont have to add u afer

eg    op is queer > op is qeer

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 12:31

>>6
why not replace it with "kw"

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 14:20

The last three are unnecessary. The h as a sound modifier is fine. Seems you saw no need for a 'ch' symbol.

Getting rid of the redundant letters would be sensible except the cost would outweigh the benefit. It's only three, it's not going to save much memory in character sets. It might make learning spelling a tiny bit easier.

Before anyone mentions it, reforming the spelling based on pronunciation would go nowhere fast. There are a million varying accents for English with different pronunciations.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 15:44

ʃould I stay or ʃ I go?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 6:27

>>7
thats 2 letters, which is the same length as "qu"

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 12:08

>>10
but a useless letter is deprecated that way

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 12:10

>>8
Yeah, and that's why English fails, too much bloat and you can't reform it because it will fuck up backwards compatibility and all the variants that are around. Kinda like the x86 instruction set.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 14:58

Let's just all switch to Russian as the main global lingua franca.

Давай!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 16:33

>>13
What does davaj mean

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 16:58

Waht ihz going ahn hir?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 19:22

*** Changes ***
- Fixed an error in which the letter 'u' could appear immediately after the letter 'o'.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 6:01

>>11my point is that "q" is shorter then both "kw" and "qu"

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 7:19

>>17
good thing no one is hiring you to reform the writing system.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 10:25

How about we stop using an inferior language like English altogether?

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 10:33

>>19
I think English has a pretty easy grammar (way easier than my native language's grammar) with a good amount of both germanic and latin words. That makes English a great language for international communication.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-03 14:43

>>20
The problem with english is, it's bloated. What makes it good for communication is, that every fucking person knows it. English grammar is highly irregular, vocabulary is non-uniform and grotesquely redundant, and spelling is a wreck from all sorts of rules assorted from everywhere etc.

Kinda like the Ottoman Turkish language, but they reformed it after they realized no one else was speaking it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-03 15:36

>>17
So what, you want a letter for every one syllable to make it shorter to type? Yeah sounds great, then we'll have like 10 fucking thousand letters just like Chinese

Koreans probably have the best alphabet system, it's like they stack a bunch of letters on each other to create a word, so a syllable only takes up one space, yet anyone can read it, not to mention, you know where a syllable ends or starts, unlike English in many occasions

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-04 4:41

>>18
you're not very clever are you?

>>22
i was only saying that "qu" could be made shorter by taking away the useless "u", it woulds still have the same sound.

however i fully agree about the Korean alphabet. Once you can read it well enough to recognize syllables instantly (as opposed to sounding it out) it makes it insanely fast to read too

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-04 10:50

>>21
I particularly think that this "bloat" or redundancy, is pretty useful, you can choose among many ways how to express yourself.
My only beef with English is the pronounciation.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-04 11:10

Ai personali think it wud bi best if everi thing was speld foneticali yuzing thuh 26 leterz wi haf tu chuz from.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-04 11:32

Aj tink Inglisj sjudd bi ritten juzing de Norvidsjen ælfabett ænd pronæunsd wit a Norvidsjen æksent.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-04 11:35

>>24

>I particularly think that this "bloat" or redundancy, is pretty useful, you can choose among many ways how to express yourself.

English is not Russian, Finnish or Arabic or whatever you seem to think.
The three latter languages allow for dynamic, creative ways of expressing oneself.

English, on the other hand, is just *bloated*. Fat, redundant and simply bloated.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-04 11:37

>>26

Ноу, ю морон. Лет'с джаст ду ит лайк он 2ch.ru: Инглиш ин сыриллик.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-04 12:17

>>26
>>28
Nou, yuu bouth aar roong. Inglish shud bii rittön wit tö Finish ortaagräfi insteed end pronaunsd laik Finish. Tät wei it iis kliörör end mats betör.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-06 13:55

Ol of yu ar vrong, İngliş şud biy vritın akording tu Törkiş ortografi and pronavnsd vit e horrid törkiş eksent, it iz fonetik end silibılz are pronavnsd sepırıtliy so it iz kliyır for evriyvan.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-08 11:20

>>29

Very nice but how do you expect to pronounce θ, ð, dʒ, and quite a few other sounds your alphabet isn't ready for.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-08 13:16

We should all learn to speak with the IPA or something.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-08 15:07

>>31
Wow, out of everyone here you target me? Is there a specific reason for that?

Anyhow, θ = fh, ð = th (t), dʒ = jh.

Problem solved. Oor, praablöm saalvd.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-08 15:44

>>23
you completely missed my point

You could do that for many letters, like I said, following your example, we could have like 10,000 letters

Q is just kw in most examples

let's make 'com' a new letter because it could be shorter, so com = c
let's make pu[pyu] a new letter because it could be shorter, so pu=q
let's make ter a new letter because it could be shorter, so ter=x

ok guys, so what does cqx read as?
Q doesn't need to be revised it just needs to be scrapped

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-09 1:39

>>34
then you will have to create another letter in its place fool

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-09 3:06

>>35
No you won't. It has no purpose nor no place

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-09 14:42

>>35
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Name: Anonymous 2008-03-09 16:14

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo and ghoti are white people rules of grammar.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-09 16:49

>>37
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Name: Anonymous 2008-03-09 20:01

Þucq you.
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