User talk:Muke/Spelling

I think using that african alphabet for English would be bloody cool. But it seems to lack dental fricatives, as well some necessary vowelage... --Vlad 04:58, 15 Oct 2004 (PDT)

Biscriptal orthography

Institute two different spelling systems, one for native words and one for foreign ones. Or put differently, spell Germanic words Germanically and Romance words Romantically. (Give some way to discern orthographies, I'm thinking maybe use italics.) [This may not even be necessary. Who knows? I'll discard it for now.]

Back when Swedish/Danish/German were written with Fraktur they used Antiqua (i.e. what we know as Roman) letters for non-Swedish/Danish/German words. The problem with using italics is that one then needs to use a lot of bold for emphasis and then also bold italic'. BTW italics read poorly on-screen IMNSHO. BTW, mind if I upload my semiserious ideas on an English spelling reform? BPJ 12:57, 10 May 2005 (PDT)

Hmm, that's right and something I hadn't thought about (Fraktur/Antiqua). Anyway, spelling reforms are certainly welcome here. (This one is placed under my user page because, well, it's nameless for one, and I'm not really sure about a good naming convention either). —Muke Tever | ✎ 09:11, 11 May 2005 (PDT)

Except that in your case English Blackletter is of course more appropriate than Fraktur! There are plenty of fonts around, tho most of them lack accents and moreover the face has got too much of an association with Heavy Metal for general use, alas! Perhaps you should design a "Frathur" style and make it official on your server! ;)

I call my spelling "New AngloSaxon Spelling", with good reason since it uses þ, ð and accented letters, but with less good reason since it also uses ʃ ʒ ŋ as distinct letters (where ʒ is /dʒ/ rather than /ʒ/, BTW.

(BTW how do you create the [[User Talk:Muke|✎]] stamp?) BPJ 01:21, 13 May 2005 (PDT)

Sorry for the late reply. Blackletter seems like a good idea ;) if a bit intrusive. Possibly even just serif vs. sans-serif might be reasonable. At any rate, I just set the "your nickname" field in Special:Preferences to Muke Tever]] | [[User Talk:Muke|✎ — though in recent versions you can just turn on "raw signatures" and put whatever you like in. —Muke Tever | ✎ 08:41, 18 May 2005 (PDT)