Ingglish speling reform?

[Zaldakki]

The only major complaint I have is the letter W. As in "Double-U/Double Yew". The fact is the naming of "w" was a complete cop out (like in French it's double-v). I believe "W" deserves its own name. Like "Weh" or "Wuh" or even "Ewe"

Dáblio. *nods*

[Anglo-California]

Do you think Portuguese sounds anything like Spanish?

Of course I do. And it's related to aesthetics.

Well it sounds kinda like sexy deaf Spanish, so there's that...

When Brazilians speak English, their accent makes them sound Russian.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

Well it sounds kinda like sexy deaf Spanish, so there's that...

When Brazilians speak English, their accent makes them sound Russian.

A few t.A.t.U. songs sound like Portuguese-based gibberish to me.

[Zaldakki]

Well it sounds kinda like sexy deaf Spanish, so there's that...

When Brazilians speak English, their accent makes them sound Russian.

My Catholic school has a new priest from Brazil. I first heard him on the intercom during morning prayer before I saw him, and I thought he was African.

[Othelos]

That passage looks pretty fucked.

Well too Dutch at least.

exactly my thoughts.

[Katganistan]

If students fresh from China can speak, write and read English fluently in three to five years -- and their spoken and written language is completely different -- then I see no reason to 'reform' spelling.

Esperanto was supposed to be the answer -- an international artificially constructed language everyone was going to learn. While perhaps as many as 2,000,000 people worldwide speak it, it hasn't become the lingua franca it was supposed to be since its creation in 1887.

[Greater Beggnig]

I reconize þatt Inglish duz not haff a veri good sistem of spelling. þus, it iz nessesseri for þe langwej þatt iz becoming þe global 'linguwa franka' too haff a spelling sistem þatt iz standardized and can be understood bi boþ natiff speekerz and þoze neu too þe langwej. Like et or nott, Inglish iz a Jermannic langwej, and such, when spelt foneticali et looks like wun. I am compleetli shur þatt þoze reeding þis can still understand what I am saeing, regardless of þe neu sistem.

Done with some my proposed changes. If I made any mistakes or inconsistencies please correct me.

Any particular reason for the double t's? Or are they merely asthetic?

[Vladislavija]

If students fresh from China can speak, write and read English fluently in three to five years -- and their spoken and written language is completely different -- then I see no reason to 'reform' spelling.

No no no no no, what they are speaking is not called fluent english.

[Minarchist States]

I reconize þatt Inglish duz not haff a veri good sistem of spelling. þus, it iz nessesseri for þe langwej þatt iz becoming þe global 'linguwa franka' too haff a spelling sistem þatt iz standardized and can be understood bi boþ natiff speekerz and þoze neu too þe langwej. Like et or nott, Inglish iz a Jermannic langwej, and such, when spelt foneticali et looks like wun. I am compleetli shur þatt þoze reeding þis can still understand what I am saeing, regardless of þe neu sistem.

Done with some my proposed changes. If I made any mistakes or inconsistencies please correct me.

Any particular reason for the double t's? Or are they merely asthetic?

Consistency. Whereas one consonant between vowels assumes that the first vowel will become long, two consonants will establish that the vowel is short.

Take the word "Jermannic." If there were only one n, then the word would look like "Jermanic" or Jer manic (like mania).

[Forsher]

Any particular reason for the double t's? Or are they merely asthetic?

Consistency. Whereas one consonant between vowels assumes that the first vowel will become long, two consonants will establish that the vowel is short.

Take the word "Jermannic." If there were only one n, then the word would look like "Jermanic" or Jer manic (like mania).

I'm not sure about you but I say it as Ger-man-ic. Not, Ger- man- nic. In hindsight I don't think this was your point.

[Katganistan]

If students fresh from China can speak, write and read English fluently in three to five years -- and their spoken and written language is completely different -- then I see no reason to 'reform' spelling.

No no no no no, what they are speaking is not called fluent english.

Excuse you, when they get 90s on the Comprehensive English Regents exam and can speak more easily and correctly than native speakers, that is called fluent English.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

If students fresh from China can speak, write and read English fluently in three to five years -- and their spoken and written language is completely different -- then I see no reason to 'reform' spelling.

You mean HetRio 'fluent'? Well...

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

Excuse you, when they get 90s on the Comprehensive English Regents exam and can speak more easily and correctly than native speakers, that is called fluent English.

Anybody could really have a more standard Portuguese than average Brazilians, this is no excuse.

[The Liberated Territories]

Consistency. Whereas one consonant between vowels assumes that the first vowel will become long, two consonants will establish that the vowel is short.

Take the word "Jermannic." If there were only one n, then the word would look like "Jermanic" or Jer manic (like mania).

I'm not sure about you but I say it as Ger-man-ic. Not, Ger- man- nic. In hindsight I don't think this was your point.

What do you mean? The extra "n" is more or less a clue that you should be pronouncing it without a long a sound.

[Greater Beggnig]

Any particular reason for the double t's? Or are they merely asthetic?

Consistency. Whereas one consonant between vowels assumes that the first vowel will become long, two consonants will establish that the vowel is short.

Take the word "Jermannic." If there were only one n, then the word would look like "Jermanic" or Jer manic (like mania).

We're nearly there. Why no v's?
I for one, do not pronounce v as ff.
Is ff a new digraph for v?
And wouldn't shur need to be spelt shurr?
Make no mistake, I like it and we are onto something here.

[Vladislavija]

No no no no no, what they are speaking is not called fluent english.

Excuse you, when they get 90s on the Comprehensive English Regents exam and can speak more easily and correctly than native speakers, that is called fluent English.

Are we talking here about chinese born chinese who studied in china for that test?

[Rephesus]

When Brazilians speak English, their accent makes them sound Russian.

My Catholic school has a new priest from Brazil. I first heard him on the intercom during morning prayer before I saw him, and I thought he was African.

Well considering that Brazil has the largest number of Catholics in the world, the second largest number of people of African descent (After Nigeria), and the largest number of Afro-Catholics, it's pretty likely that he's a Brazilian of African descent that is a Catholic Priest.

Not that that's like, relevant or anything.

[Zaldakki]

Consistency. Whereas one consonant between vowels assumes that the first vowel will become long, two consonants will establish that the vowel is short.

Take the word "Jermannic." If there were only one n, then the word would look like "Jermanic" or Jer manic (like mania).

I'm not sure about you but I say it as Ger-man-ic. Not, Ger- man- nic. In hindsight I don't think this was your point.

I think he's doing it to make short vowels, not geminate consonants.

[Consortium of the Caigont]

Aj pɹəfɝ vɪs əʊvɝ və pɹɛznt sɪstm, bɐt, æz juw kæn sij, aj pɹifɝ vij aj pʰi ɛɪ əʊvɝ ɛni ɑ̈ɫtɝnətɪv.
(I prefer this over the present system, but, as you can see, I prefer the IPA over any alternative.)

I'm not sure about you but I say it as Ger-man-ic. Not, Ger- man- nic. In hindsight I don't think this was your point.

I think he's doing it to make short vowels, not geminate consonants.

English only has geminates across word boundaries, like "bag gate".
And personally, anyone who doubles the consonant to shorten a preceding vowel is too lazy to put a macron over their vowels.

[Zaldakki]

Aj pɹəfɝ vɪs əʊvɝ və pɹɛznt sɪstm, bɐt, æz juw kæn sij, aj pɹifɝ vij aj pʰi ɛɪ əʊvɝ ɛni ɑ̈ɫtɝnətɪv.
(I prefer this over the present system, but, as you can see, I prefer the IPA over any alternative.)

Is English not your native language? How come you pronounce the as və instead of ðə?

I think he's doing it to make short vowels, not geminate consonants.

English only has geminates across word boundaries, like "bag gate".
And personally, anyone who doubles the consonant to shorten a preceding vowel is too lazy to put a macron over their vowels.

There are some English words with geminate consonants. For example, cattail and solely.

[Nervium]

What is this? 1984?

[Immoren]

What is this? 1984?

Now you're just being parabolic.

[Nervium]

What is this? 1984?

Now you're just being parabolic.

I'm sorry, am I being detained?


You also very likely mean hyperbolic. Newspeaker.

[Immoren]

Now you're just being parabolic.

I'm sorry, am I being detained?


You also very likely mean hyperbolic. Newspeaker.

Þät män is sili indiid.

[Region Explorer]

I'm sorry, am I being detained?


You also very likely mean hyperbolic. Newspeaker.

Þät män is sili indiid.

You mean ðat man....