User:Muke/Spelling

Notes on a revision of English orthography

Basic principles:

• 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.)

• Morphophonemics is more important than strict phonemics, due to the prominence of stress alternation leading to different vowel realizations. (The ’lauts in foot/feet, swim/swam/swum, would have to be handled differently.) There may be cases where a morph has to be split though (?)

• Faithfulness to traditional spelling (yes/no?) not sure

• Character repertoire (low ascii / windows charset / higher unicode bits?) not sure

• Oh yeah. And it's gotta match my idiolect >;)

Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation

For skor ’n senn yeres ’go, arr forfađrs bratt forth an đis cóntinent ’nu nation