Tersen wrote:
> I think <a
>
href="http://www.ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/Sound/Kompleet_Ingglish_Alfabet.mp3">a
> more complete English alphabet</a> sounds Russian. Technically, there
> is no English alphabet. It's Roman,
> with one letter tossed in, while the Jermans and the French tossed in
> accented vowels with two different takes on which vowels are similar.
>
> I might get more radical than jays for palatal jees in my spelling with
> time. That video to be is as accomodating as I've been to the
> traditional order for letters. Previous work along these lines is at
> <a href="http://www.mynumo.com/SherLok">,
where even the font is
> radical. I mean to spell out names for the letters that carry over
> noise, while sticking to Roman, so the video will be something like
> this:
> Ah Bay Chaw Dee Eh Fuh Guu Hai
> Ih Joh Kuh Lay Am iN o
> Pa Qay Ruu Sih Teh Uh Vuu Waw
> Xah Yeh Zai Ay Ee Ai Oh
> Uu @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dhoh Thaw Zhee Sheh Ung
>
> Basically, I still can't avoid spelling reform in this. The only time
> the letter See represents a yuuneek sound is as a digraph "ch". The
> letter kyuu never has a unique sound within the alphabet, so I assigned
> it to the voiced, glottal hiss (a.k.a. the growl), which isn't,
> strictly speaking, English. Xah? That's the sound in the Scottish
> "loch", or the Jerman "buch". It's also the whispered variety of Qay.
> Not English, but in Ingglish, it represents four different clusters of
> consonants, so we don't need it for that -- better to spell them out.
>
> If you can pronounce either Qay or Xah, then try turning your voice box
> on or off. You'll hear that the growl is a voiced glottal hiss. I say
> it's more complete, and perhaps not as complete as the IPA or computer
> models that hav about ninety-one sounds, but it sticks to Roman
> letters, and since Great Britain didn't adopt anything from Cyrillic,
> there's little hope that IPA will come into common use. I could be
> wrong, though. Maybe spelling reform societies in GB will gain
> influence and adopt a larger font.
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