Culture: Language: Spelling
fonetyk speling   (+1, -4)  [vote for, against]
forget morfoloji, just spel yt laik yt saundz

Meik thu speling bi a /th/ing uv thu past.
-- globaltourniquet, Apr 24 2001

yndid, beikt http://www3.sympati...e.sss/LordPray.html
or els: nau ai lei mi daun tu slip [globaltourniquet, Apr 24 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

ivn betr http://hometown.aol...Fanetiks/index.html
[globaltourniquet, Apr 24 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Feersum Endjinn http://www.sff.net/....horton/endjinn.htm
1/4 of which is written phonetically.. [yamahito, Oct 07 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Feersum Endjinn (2) http://home.golden..../feersumendjinn.htm
This one includes some quotes: The difficulty in reading Bascule's speach is actually not as hard as finally getting used to it, only to swap back to conventional spelling. I couldn't spell for two weeks after reading the damn thing, but as a physics student, that was OK, I guess. [yamahito, Oct 07 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Superwrite http://mrsley.tripo...m/business/id2.html
A type of phonetic writing that is already being taught. [baron555, Oct 07 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Many have attempted to bake this, with scant result. But it strikes me that the jargon of chat rooms reflects a certain idiosyncratic phonetics... bleh. (You've created an excellent satiric demonstration of why it's a bad idea--best compliments.)
-- Dog Ed, Apr 24 2001


Dog, the second link is marvelously laughable....

(one supposes they are promoting grammar reform as well...)
-- globaltourniquet, Apr 24 2001


global: Second link <lol> Fanetiks fanatics!
-- Dog Ed, Apr 24 2001


How would we spell "nuclear" in this system?
-- mcdornan1, Jun 08 2001


can yoo imajyn thu man frum snoie riva writan yn thys form of speling?
-- rambling, Oct 07 2002


Mae'r ateb yn hawdd: siaradwch Gymraeg.
-- yamahito, Oct 07 2002



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