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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 65 of 72 11 April 2010 at 12:13am | IP Logged | |||||
The entire English speaking world could just buy keyboards made for Icelandic. Another simplification could be to always write F for the f-sound instead of F, PH and GH. But, I don't think we will see an English spelling reform in our lifetime. Edited by tractor on 11 April 2010 at 7:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 66 of 72 11 April 2010 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
Have you any idea how many keyboards dhat would be? Besides, you're forgetting about dhe fact dhat laptop keyboards aren't dhat easy to replace, and dhat dhere's no "standard" laptop keyboard anyway.... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 67 of 72 11 April 2010 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For some laptops at least, the keyboard is an option you can switch out at the store. It would be model-specific of
course, but as long as we're imagining the possibility of English welcome some long-lost letters… 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vinlander Groupie Canada Joined 5821 days ago 62 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 68 of 72 11 April 2010 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's amazes me in the internet age how there's not a larger community of people doing spelling reform for English. I mean as I said before netspeak is clearly on that level. Just think if there was a English reform wikipedia. I mean even if just this board did the reform I think it would catch on in a couple of years. It would be interesting to see if someone could figure out how to make a translater that put English into reform English.
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 69 of 72 11 April 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
It was a joke. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kyrie Senior Member United States clandestein.deviantaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5729 days ago 207 posts - 231 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 70 of 72 11 April 2010 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd like to see the combination 'th' represented by the letter þorn or 'þ', as it used to represent in Old English. I'd also like to see macrons and breves over vowels to indicate the sound it makes. ("Is it pronounced clandestīne or clandestǐne?") Accents would be beneficial too for words that don't follow the regular stress pattern of English. (If there even is one.) Edited by Kyrie on 11 April 2010 at 8:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 71 of 72 13 April 2010 at 6:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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| chanjhj Bilingual Diglot Newbie Singapore Joined 5449 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 72 of 72 14 April 2010 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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English probably needs a reform (that wouldn't happen). The differences between
American and British spellings are extremely annoying. Its fine when you speak it, but whenever you read or spell it, that's where the problem lies. And half of the English spellings make no sense since consonants here and there are not pronounced.They could definitely be simplified. Actually, the F for PH sounds have been already implemented, sort of. For example, sulfate, sulfite, sulfur. Even though I still end up writing 'ph' anyway. Another thing would be Chinese characters. China- Simplified Chinese. Taiwan- Traditional Chinese. Japanese- Kanji which looks exactly the same and usually means the same thing but with a different pronunciation. This makes for some very confusing cases. Its just...infuriating, especially Japanese Kanji because I know the meaning of the word but I have no idea how to pronounce it so whenever I see Kanji, I'm just...stuck. And traditional Chinese because I know the word, and how it looks like in Simplified Chinese but I just cannot recognise traditional Chinese characters. But I don't suppose it is possible to suddenly reform the English language overnight...(which would be a little annoying since we would have to learn the new form too.) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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