Hi Star and other people in Lurk mode I was wondering if we could re-visit the question of having an American subset of the Shaw Alphabet. I have had a...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 2, 2003 5:45 pm
... I would have thought that American, especially, would benefit from the rhotic letters since all American varieties I am familiar with are rhotic -- whereas...
Hi Philip Thank-you for your prompt feedback. Let me respond to 2 of your points, for the moment. First, as for the 6 Rhotic letters, I chose to bypass in the...
Remember, though, that there are non-Rhotic American accents as well. Ever been to Boston? I.M. Davis ... "A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire...
I would have thought that rhotic forms would be an advantage to rhotic groups rather than non-rhotic groups. When someone wanted to write "bird", for example,...
... From: Philip Newton To: shavian@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [shavian] Re: Greetings to a fellow Shavian. ... I...
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Newton, Philip
philip.newton@...
Feb 3, 2003 11:52 am
... Someone knowing the current version of Shavian and speaking (non-rhotic) Brit-Eng might be inclined to read the "ah" version of the first word as "tarp"...
... From: Newton, Philip Someone knowing the current version of Shavian and speaking (non-rhotic) Brit-Eng might be inclined to read the "ah" version of the...
... subset of the Shaw Alphabet.<< As a strongly rhotic North American speaker, I find the original Shaw Alphabet quite comfortable, and I continue to think...
Watching the discussions that take place on this site convinces me that the plight of English spelling is essentially hopeless. I read a report of a study...
I am a high school student currently studying the Shavian alphabet, and I am currently having trouble finding the difference between the AIR, ERR, and ARRAY...
Hi Stephen Please don't forget that the Alphabet has to be designed for the benefit of even those foreign or untutored readers/writers who do not have recourse...
</lurk> ... My only quarrel here is that AH is more complicated to write than ON. Keep the four one-stroke simple vowels intact, please. Craig <lurk>...
Hello Student Guy You bumped into a problem a number of other people have suffered from. The sounds of some of Key words used to describe the sound of a ...
I guess I should clarify my previous statements. I was looking at some text-to-speech software source code. There is one section which converts a written ...
Hi Paige I realize that the difficulties in acheiving unanimity may reduce some of us to hopelessness, but I myself hope that we will eventually acquire enough...
Hi Scott It is hard to compare the difficulty of learning to write Chinese with the difficulty of learning to write English. There are a number of side issues....
... From: Craig Butz </lurk> ... My only quarrel here is that AH is more complicated to write than ON. Keep the four one-stroke simple vowels intact, please. ...
You probably would have done quite well in Chinese schools. The less legible the writing, the better ... it becomes a piece of art to hang up in the house ......
I havesaid it once, and i will say it again, if you want to change the set for amenricans, DON'T ASSUME THAT WE ARE SIMPLETONS!!! I can understand the vowels...
Simple Simone strikes again I see. Why must you insist that Americans are stupid? It is true, my bothers across the pond, that americans enter school when they...
I saw the cut version and found it TOO limiting. Seing as how english is 13% irregular spellings as is, with hundreds of combinations to make about fifty...
Reccomended reading: Why johnny can't read. It opened my eyes. Americans DO use a chinese-type system. That is why ALL of the shavian needs to be taken as a...
... Air= bare, hair Err= learn, yearn, BRP AdVERtisment Urge/Array= ARP adverTISement aberrAtion Does this help? --Star (who also learned in high school) =====...
... I BEG TO DIFFER!!! I use these three in their proper place all the time. These are very important. ... Pay no attention to the man behind the green...
This is exactly why you should take a look at the cut Shavian alphabet I devised. It consolidates those characters that cause confusion between the two...
... From: Star Raven To: shavian@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:56 PM Subject: Re: [shavian] Question ... I BEG TO DIFFER!!! I use these...
Are you so sure about that? perhaps instructed to understand the differences, most people WOULD hear a difference. Minority or not, I think that there is...
