Every once in a while I sometimes think about remaking the English writing system, as is normal I’m sure😅, and I wonder what would be the most useful revision of punctuation or phonetic.

  • Darthjaffacake@lemmy.worldOPM
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    9 months ago

    I think it makes sense to have two letters for R and use them for onset and coda for a really good reason, dialectical compatibility is really high. In my dialect there are no coda R sounds but if it still represents schwa for me then I can spell everything the same as Americans or people with a different dialect in my country. It’s also pretty intuitive because spelling schwa with er is really common.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      The schwa is honestly it’s own thing to me, I think it should have a letter as well, something like

      • A = All
      • Aŗ = Are
      • Æ = And
      • Ai = I
      • Aiŗ = Ire
      • E = End
      • Ei = They
      • Eiŗ = Air
      • È = A
      • Ŗ = Her
      • I = He
      • Iŗ = Ear
      • Ì = in
      • O = Oh
      • Oŗ = Or
      • Oi = Oil
      • Ou = Out
      • Ouŗ = Our
      • Ò = On
      • U = Oops
      • Ue = Look
      • Ù = Up

      It’s not perfect but you can see what I’m going for, Shortening the average length of a sentence both by opening up phonetic/by spoken word spelling, and then also by eliminating homophones in writing by using abbreviations for the more commonly used soundalikes. Observe,

      Ìt’s nòt pŗfekt, bùt Y kæn si wèt Ai’m goiŋ foŗ, coŗtìniŋ ð ævrìdj leŋþ v è sentens boþ bai opìniŋ ù fonetìk/bai spokìn wŗd speliŋ, æ ðen also bai ìlìmìneitiŋ hòmofonz ì raitiŋ bai yuziŋ èbrivieicènz f ð moŗ kòmènli yuzd soundèlaiks. Èbzŗv,