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What single addition would be most useful to the English writing system? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world to c/neography@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 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,