Saundspel, the phonology forum, is a discussion group for those interested in spelling by sound, applied linguistics, writing systems, history, and spelling reform.
If you have a language related question, post it here. If you post something not language related, you risk being banned from the group.
The Saundspel discussion group was originally set up to build a machine readable IPA analog for transcribing English speech. SAMPA* was available but not designed as a writing system. ENgliS , Unigraf, and similar notations are about as close as we have come to finding an easily read and typed way to represent 40+ sounds with a 26 character (ASCII) keyboard. An improved orthography for World English (see euro-english) remains a key but not the sole concern of this group. [ more -includes 20 links]
Not entirely disappointed in Down, nor indeed Downe; neither 'down' nor 'out' (but will indeed be watching my back in the vicinity of wells, in view of these
... From: Rikd Cmei5 <londheart@...> Subject: City Lit Gaelic Group Re: Trousers and Beautiful Days To: gaeliccl@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, 10 July,
I sent the below copy of my original email to you recently in the innocent belief that my letter had been published verbatim. But today I got my first actual
Interesting set of reassignments. You manage to augment the alphabet nd show stress without using diacritics or spl. characters. A few special characters are