Every once in a while I sometimes think about remaking the English writing system, as is normal I’m sure😅, and I wonder what would be the most useful revision of punctuation or phonetic.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    The schwa is honestly it’s own thing to me, I think it should have a letter as well, something like

    • A = All
    • Aŗ = Are
    • Æ = And
    • Ai = I
    • Aiŗ = Ire
    • E = End
    • Ei = They
    • Eiŗ = Air
    • È = A
    • Ŗ = Her
    • I = He
    • Iŗ = Ear
    • Ì = in
    • O = Oh
    • Oŗ = Or
    • Oi = Oil
    • Ou = Out
    • Ouŗ = Our
    • Ò = On
    • U = Oops
    • Ue = Look
    • Ù = Up

    It’s not perfect but you can see what I’m going for, Shortening the average length of a sentence both by opening up phonetic/by spoken word spelling, and then also by eliminating homophones in writing by using abbreviations for the more commonly used soundalikes. Observe,

    Ìt’s nòt pŗfekt, bùt Y kæn si wèt Ai’m goiŋ foŗ, coŗtìniŋ ð ævrìdj leŋþ v è sentens boþ bai opìniŋ ù fonetìk/bai spokìn wŗd speliŋ, æ ðen also bai ìlìmìneitiŋ hòmofonz ì raitiŋ bai yuziŋ èbrivieicènz f ð moŗ kòmènli yuzd soundèlaiks. Èbzŗv,