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But then many ppl would pronounce [mei] and [mein], don't you think?
Not really any concern of mine, as nobody would ever spell things except with the current broken "system". Spelling reform could never work in this country or the UK.
As for my spellings, almost everybody that speaks a language that uses the Latin alphabet would have an easier time of pronouncing English words written in my system, because we are the only language that has changed the pronunciation of the cardinal vowels so much (over 600 years ago), but never bothered to update our spelling.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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yeah, if we all knew the IPA, this wouldn't be a problem.
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yeah, if we all knew the IPA, this wouldn't be a problem.
It never ceases to amaze me that we spend so much time teaching English orthography in schools (and have silly contests like spelling bees), but the thought of learning the IPA sends shivers down the collective spines of parents. In most languages with some sort of regularized phonemic orthography, children learn to read much faster. Even getting dictionaries to use IPA seems a duanting thankless task. The OED does.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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>the thought of learning the IPA sends shivers down the collective spines of parents
well, obviously, that's because the *parents don't want to have to learn something new.
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