The hardest part about ENgliS
is learning to sound spell. English readers and writers do
not build sound spelling skills because the traditional orthography is so
unreliable. [more] Traditional spelling [tradspel] is usually learned by memorizing visual patterns and eye rhymes. There is a basic sound code as proponents of phonics are quick to point out, but it only works about 50% of the time. You can, however, memorize the four most likely spellings for a given sound and be right 85% of the time, provided you get four tries. Most people go thru the options and pick the spelling that looks right. [more] . Spell sapEna
in tradspel: ____________________ HINT: It sounds like sapEna but it contains two silent letters and an initial /^/ instead of /@/. This distorts the stress pattern. In English the vowels y and schwa-a are always unstressed. With a little practice, you can sound spell any word in your vocabulary correctly the first time. After less than three weeks of practice, you will be able to spell words in ENgliS with twice the accuracy of your conventional spellings. First year students of German are able to spell German words with greater accuracy than they can English words. English speaking students of German make less than half the spelling errors in German than they do in English [Upward, 1994]. German often has two ways to spell a particular sound but English has an average of nearly 14 ways. 4 of these ways account for about 85% of the spellings in the dictionary. Most forms of regularized English are much easier to spell because they remove silent letters and extra letters such as double consonants when they do not mark a stressed short vowel. Advocates of phonics will say that the sound in AXE is
spelled only one way ignoring such spellings as plaid, have,
half, laugh, dahlia, guarantee. AXE
is spelled one way in ENgliS <ax> but this means that
many words are respelled: plad, hav, laf, dalia,
garantE. To achieve a highly predictable spelling, the unstressed vowels must also be spelled. ENgliS adds two new letters for this purpose the schwa a as in ago and the schwi y as in very. The schwi y is an allophone of E except for being unstressed. For native speakers VerE is sufficient. For ESL students, stress should be indicated / Very / or / 'VerE / Stress is phonemic in English and 40% of the multi-syllable words have irregular stress. Regular stress in English is on the first syllable. dEzYnd for fqst fOnEmik tYpiN ENgliS is designed for fast phonemic typing on a standard QWERTY keyboard. It contains no diacritics or special characters in its ASCII form, but can be converted when an extended character set is available. The most important conversion is probably q to a and c to ä. ENgliS purports to be the best unigraphic ASCII restricted
notation for the English language. ENgliS could be used as an i.t.a. altho it is not very close to tradspel. Spanglish might be a little better since it is digraphic and tries to mimic the marking practices found in English spelling. Latin 1 options |
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5 is pronounced <inglish>. E=/i:/ This is not a new pronunciation, just a new spelling that clearly indicates a broadcast English dialect. p.1
Since 60% of the words in English are not spelled as they are pronounced, 60% of the words are going to be respelled in any consistent phonemic writing system. rekognYzabl rEspeliNz The challenge is to do this while making the spellings recognizable to those adept in tradspel. The challenj iz tu du this wail meiking the spelingz recognaizabl tu thowz adept in tradspel. Da Cqlanj iz tw dw Dis
There are no points for originality in orthographic design. ENgliS borrows ideas from many others systems. See www.m-w.com for a very similar orthography used as a pronunciation guide in a dictionary. Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences ENgliS defines the upper case AEYOU as shifted pronunciations of the long vowels. The letter names are AEIOU and except for "wai" the letter sounds are the same as their names. Y looks more like an "eye" and is a more distinctive shape than the capital I. It looks more natural in words such as FLY than FLI. The letter name for the Y shape should be "ai" or i: rather than wai. The nearest Greek letter in terms of shape is the upsilon. j can be used for yod. |
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In many ways, Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, which first appeared in 1755, followed the same pattern as the Spanish dictionary, using quotations from canonical figures to put a word's usage in the proper context. In his introduction, Dr. Johnson noted that language was in constant mutation. Still, he said, his mission was to honor his country so "that we may no longer yield the palm of philology without a contest to the nations of the continent" and to give "longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence Chart for ENgliS and
Spanglish
This chart can be used for both ENgliS
& Spanglish Spanglish has one substitution, v
for the obscure vowel /U/ which is spelled 5 ways in tradspel. .dW
U nO how tW plA Dis kcrd gAm? = Du
yu no how tu pley this card geim? The goals for any new orthography
for English are: phonemic, consistent, compact, keyboard friendly, and
learner friendly [easy to teach and learn]. The new script should be
readable by tradspel adepts witout a key. Anyone can read Spanglish
but not without a little effort. It takes more effort to read a
system like ENgliS which uses "caps" as a diacritic. A
somewhat less keyboard friendly version can be created by using another
diacritic - accents. "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana"
[present day spelling] The ENgliS GP [grapheme-phoneme] or symbol-sound table
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