Paul O. BARTLETT | Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Re: Introducing myself…

• Autor: Paul O. BARTLETT (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Re: Introducing myself…
• Data: 2002-11-25 17:30
• Mesaje: 406 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, P Bjorn Madsen wrote (extract):

> Like you I also have thought a lot about some kind of English in
> combination with a spelling reform, but the more I looked into it
> the more impossible it looked. I now think that English needd a
> pronounciation reform more than a spelling reform ;-)

    Yes, English spelling is a mess, even for many native speakers.
Children often spend years contending with our weird spelling.
However, as for a pronunciation reform in order to help English as an
international language, that also is a problem.  Which English?  Whose
English?  The language is pronounced quite differently in different
parts of the world.  Educated native speakers can usually understand
each other, but non-native speakers who learn one English dialect
sometimes can scarcely understand speakers of another English dialect
without a lot of practice.  However, reforms in either case are not
likely to make much headway.  That is why something like LFN, with its
phonemic spelling (among other things), is a good idea.

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Paul Bartlett
bartlett at smart.net