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11809 Andrew Jarrette
anjarrette Send Email
Nov 1, 2007
5:14 pm
Hi Bjorn, I'm new to the Folkspraak group, having discovered it during a search for Conlangs, or invented languages. So I am not able to converse in...
11810 stefichjo Send Email Nov 1, 2007
5:29 pm
Hi Andrew, Welcome to the list! :-) Simplified Spelling sounds interesting. I have found http://www.spellingsociety.org/index.php but no texts written in...
11811 Andrew Jarrette
anjarrette Send Email
Nov 1, 2007
6:37 pm
Hello, Stephan. The Simplified Spelling Society is at http://www.spellingsociety.org/ and I have forwarded their first and only correspondence with me,...
11812 chamavian Send Email Nov 1, 2007
7:53 pm
Hi Andrew, I checked this site, but I don't understand why it is so hard to find examples there of simplified spelling. The site itself seems to be in regular...
11813 Peter Collier
peter21691 Send Email
Nov 1, 2007
8:50 pm
Welkom, Andrew! English spelling is far from perfect, that's quite true, but I don't think it's as bad as some people make out. It's not as neat and tidy as...
11814 stefichjo Send Email Nov 1, 2007
9:49 pm
This is so hilarious! http://bar.wikipedia.org Some of the second Germanic sound shifts are missing, you may note. :-) Bye, Stephan...
11815 stefichjo Send Email Nov 1, 2007
9:53 pm
Thanks Andrew, could you please forward it again to sts@...? My yahoo adress may not work (I don't use it). Thanks! I have invented some sort...
11816 stefichjo Send Email Nov 1, 2007
9:56 pm
Apparently yahoo doesn't like that I write my email adress in here. Hey, wait, I have a google mail adress: stefichjo80@... Maybe this one is OK for...
11817 stefichjo Send Email Nov 1, 2007
9:57 pm
Sorry, but it's not really my fault... :-( stefichjo80 @ googlemail.com ... links? ... i.e. ... have to ... aims ... learn, I ... that ... words ... ...
11818 Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hugocesarcc Send Email
Nov 1, 2007
9:58 pm
I agree with you, but in some cases I simply disagree. There are rules: so-so. Why can't "ghoti" be pronounced like "fish"? "gh" is only pronounced as "f" at...
11819 Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hugocesarcc Send Email
Nov 1, 2007
10:03 pm
What about this. Add a consonant and change the pronunciation of a vowel and of a cluster of 2 consonants: tough => though => through. ... [Non-text portions...
11820 David Parke
parked71 Send Email
Nov 1, 2007
10:11 pm
All good points. It always bemuses me that an aim of FS is to make FS without diacritical letters, using just the 26 letter basic roman alphabet. Of the German...
11821 David Parke
parked71 Send Email
Nov 1, 2007
10:13 pm
... pronounced ... pronounced "o:r" ... In my dialect of EN, "pour" and "poor" are homophones. And they rhyme with "floor"....
11822 Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
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Nov 1, 2007
10:17 pm
It would be better if it would be like that. Imagine if "pour" would rhyme with "flour". So, pour = power flour = flower ... [Non-text portions of this message...
11823 stefichjo Send Email Nov 1, 2007
10:17 pm
... cluster of ... it is ... but I ... never be ... That's the ... cases it is ... or "o" as ... as say ... advantage - it's ... use 5/6 ... difficulty. ... ...
11824 David Parke
parked71 Send Email
Nov 1, 2007
10:20 pm
Oh yeah, also "paw". "poor", "pour", "paw", they are all [pO:] in NZ english....
11825 Peter Collier
peter21691 Send Email
Nov 1, 2007
11:09 pm
... off the top of my head, I would think it is silent after a long/stessed vowel, and 'f' after a short/unstressed vowel. Seems to work for enough, cough,...
11826 nordslesviger Send Email Nov 2, 2007
1:42 am
English spelling seems to be a hot topic, even it is a bit off topic ;-) The fundamental problem is that one needs some 40-50 different letters to spell...
11827 chamavian Send Email Nov 2, 2007
6:12 am
I'm a bit surprised (don't want to say "disappointed&quot;) to see how many reactions from so many different members we get about a non-FS topic like this, whereas...
11828 Peter Collier
peter21691 Send Email
Nov 2, 2007
8:38 am
Maybe my 'dialect&#39; of FS just happens to look amazingly like English? :) *mischievous giggle* Seriously though, yes it was a little off topic, but sometimes...
11829 Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
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Nov 2, 2007
11:15 am
Sorry to all for continuing talking about EN phonology, but this one is maybe important for FS orthography. It's just a simple thing I'd like to say. To create...
11830 chamavian Send Email Nov 2, 2007
11:17 am
I don't mind to discuss off topic things, especially when they have a certain relevance for FS. But I'm just sorry to see that many people seem more interested...
11831 Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
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Nov 2, 2007
11:21 am
Better than this.... just because Slovio creator did not want to use diacritics he used "x" before each consonant that needed a diacrtitic on it. The result...
11832 Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hugocesarcc Send Email
Nov 2, 2007
11:23 am
Sorry, word should be "cxtirsto"; ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
11833 Matt Emson
memsomintera... Send Email
Nov 2, 2007
11:25 am
... Ditto for me.. and David, I assume, speaks with a Kiwi accent and I speak with a Southern British regional (read: Portsmouth) accent. Our accents...
11834 Matt Emson
memsomintera... Send Email
Nov 2, 2007
11:32 am
... Noddy Holder goes into a tailor's and says to one of the assistants, "I'm re-forming Slade, I want to buy some new stage clothes. I need a pair of flared...
11835 Peter Collier
peter21691 Send Email
Nov 2, 2007
12:14 pm
We are never ... ass for the ... Those 'Mericanisms are catching... The word is Arse - (although, admittedly I would probably rather suck a donkey)!...
11836 nordslesviger Send Email Nov 2, 2007
1:05 pm
Like Ingmar I'm also a bit surprised, but I agree, that FS also has some similar problems with spelling. But first of all I would suggest something that makes...
11837 Peter Collier
peter21691 Send Email
Nov 2, 2007
2:33 pm
Ne. De spraakdiktatur is en frankisk aktivitaet and ik midspele nigt! ;) ... [...]...
11838 Matt Emson
memsomintera... Send Email
Nov 2, 2007
3:07 pm
... The irony obviously passed over you ;-) M...
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