Seriously, there's all this cool shit out there like Þ, Ŋ, Ɔ, Ƣ, and Ѧ, and we're limiting ourselves to A through Z? Come on!
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Anonymous!Sd2TD0cxZE2010-03-09 13:27
maCHine and CHurCH. Zeitgeist and Zero. boMB and coMB. THis and THink. pleaSure and Sure and Sorrow and... godS!
And, please, someone tells me WHY "iland" and "luve" are spelled as "iSland" and "lOve" - plain faggotry?
As I said, Latin alphabet works greats only for Classical Latin, but can be adapted to a non-Romance language like English. New letters would be GREAT, but they aren't even necessary.
English needs urgent respell. Make a dialects' study - some compromise with GA and RP would already works. Define how is spelled each phoneme. Make sure which alphabet will be used - I don't recommend Latin, however, it would work anyway, and with these steps, phonemes w/o letter will just stare at you and say "make me a samm... a digraph or a new letter". If you're too lazy to make new letters, reserve one inuseful (like Q, C, Y or X) to make only digraphs.
Or, continue with this archaic spelling. While the rest of the world is teaching his kids something useful (like grammar or literature or even phylosophy), yours are learning... HAW TO SPEL INGLISH.