LOGICAL ENGLISH
SPELLING SYSTEMS
|
| There
are 100's of attempts at logical English |
| spellings.
Some use most of the symbols on the |
| keyboard
and still have to trawl through tables of |
| special
fonts. Some are of the hedgehog variety, |
| where
many vowels, and even some of the |
| consonants,
are decorated with accents you |
|
can't even find, never mind write or type. Some |
| use
heavy or light type, or italics to modify |
| sounds.
All of these are very clever, but not much |
| use
except for very clever phoneticists. |
| The
best of the systems dissect the spoken |
| tongue.
They find the 18 vowel sounds used in |
| spoken
English, and they find 18 unique and |
| unchanging
ways of writing these. Preferably |
| they
use only the standard lower case key board. |
| These
vowel sounds are not changed by adjacent |
| letters,
or by their positions within words. The |
| systems
also find the 20 plain consonants, and 7 |
| aspirated
consonants, and make sure the letters |
| they
use have consistent and unique sounds |
| where
ever they come within the word. |
| The
best of these systems minimise the changes |
| to
Standard Written English (SWE), so that any |
| one
can read and write with minimum practice. |
| A
good system should also permit different |
| accents
or dialects to be written, enriching the |
| language.
This is not an 'Academie Francaise' |
| trying
to lay down standards and to take the |
| language
back to Moliere. |
| Dyslexics
have no memory of the written word. |
| They
have to look at it as if for the first time, and |
| assemble
the sound from the clues from the |
| letters.
But there are so many exceptions that |
| their
life is made hell. Often they can write a |
| word
using logic, 'sosijiz' (sausages) for |
| example,
right and wrong at the same time. |
| Armed
with Lojikl Inglish (LI), if they know what |
| the
sound is, they can write it. It does not |
| matter
much if it is not 'right'. Right is when |
| they
can write it and some one else can read it. |
| Learners
of English are also meeting words |
| for
the first time. They too will have a logical |
| routine
for reading and writing them. |
| You
could even learn Regional Accents using LI. |
| The
best system is LOJIKL INGLISH. |
| (see
ROOLZ, VOULZ,
LEXIKON, EGZAAMPLZ) |
