I am not sure how these numbers were arrived at but it does appear to be interesting. -- Steve Data from mariano ... Chinese old 3 877 syllables Chinese modern...
Paul and Bob, When something does not fit the chart, it is not phonemic. All this means is that you have to have an exception rule to cover it if you want the...
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Mike, Malone uses a writing to read approach. It is based on 40 phonograms. The advantage as I see it is that it is a hands off program. There is a lot of ...
Kate, I don't think I have anything specifically on handwriting by sound other than PMF. [URL below] I have ENgliS which uses the following short vowels q e...
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SimpIng4PB@... wrote: Thanks for the vote on skemes. I hav my favorites, too. Riet now I am sugjesting that we muve just a littel beyond speling tu speling...
... Paul I have nothing to do with this group. It was started by someone who visited saundspel and decided that there needed to be a group where everyone...
Kate, Those familiar with 39 character phonemic writing systems such as those that use cyrillic can't understand why we don't add enough symbols to cover all...
There is an easier way to bring up the letters with diacritics. Use the program Wxkbd21 (search in Google) which you can program for any letter in the first...
Alex, I don't think you have yet justified your long vowel assignments. I think you can that is why I keep pushing you to do so. AEIOU in New Spelling is ae...
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Mar 2, 2003 6:01 pm
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Hi Steve, I find it hard to realize why my proposal that the long vowel letters be shown with some kind of diacritic is seemingly thrown into the waste basket....
... Not to mention other, less-obvious variants that nevertheless exist in people's handwritings. I can think of 4 or 5 different shapes that all currently...
Ian, There are no inconsistencies in ENgliS or in a dozen other phonemic transcription systems for English. They are strictly one symbol per sound [phoneme]. ...
Dear Kate, For nearly five years now I have said that if a vowel letter has the 'schwa' sound it should be shown with a thin erasure stripe throught it. Works...
... That works well in type, but what about handwriting? If I want to handwrite in BOPHON, do I run my pencil-eraser through every letter that stands for a...
Hi Kate, In BOPHON I specify that two parallel lines through a letter indicates that it has the schwa sound. I have specified this usage in all the BOPHON...
Sunday Herald (Glasgow) - 02 March 2003 Teachers call for urgent action as pupils write essays in text-speak Children's obsession with mobile-phone messaging...
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Pete and Ken, Pete does not believe in parallel writing systems or the parallel approach to reform. I think that Ken and I believe that you probably shouldn't...
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I still think that accent neutral needs to be unpacked more. consonants = konsonants in ENgliS alt. konsanants. There is a preference for spellings that...
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ASCII ENgliS to LATIN 1 This is an attempt to show how Alex's Latin 1 notation could be associated with ENgliS - a phonemic notation that can be rapidly typed....
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Stevetbett@... wrote: Pete does not believe in parallel writing systems or the parallel approach to reform. I think that Ken and I believe that you...
David V. Moseley, 1985 Abstract . The aim of the first study was to establish an order of spelling difficulty for English graphemes, to be used in a variety of...
Kate, Please take a look at my new letters at: www.stav.org.il/karmeli They look like letters, not doodles; and each has upper case and lower case forms. Can...
... Wel - not just me. It looks like it's the 'thing' for the yunger jeneration. Persunly I like eether this Inglish2 or Iqliz3 the best. Thay'r eesyer tu reed...