~chooldrin

[Tom Zurinskas]

The major dialect of Engish in the world  is general American at 73% of
native speakers. That's the place to start for a standard.  But I should
assume we are talking "American" here in the ADS>

I use m-w.com and American Heritage Talking dictionary for my pronunciation
sources.  Quite standard.  I think national media newscasters use quite a
standard dialect.

Tom Z


>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>It seems to me that a major problem for the concept of devising a
>system of phonetic spelling for English is that of choosing the
>dialect to use as its basis. All those speakers who don't have the
>chosen dialect as their native speech will have a much *harder* time
>trying to learn to read and to spell. They're first going to have to
>learn the standard as though it were a foreign language.
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>If this sort of thing was easy or even possible, why haven't any of
>those countries, such as Germany, that already have a designated
>standard dialect of their language tried to go phonetic? What's going
>to be done WRT homonyms?
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>-Wilson
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> > In a message dated 10/18/06 1:02:13 PM, truespel at HOTMAIL.COM writes:
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> > > That way we end up with a phonetic language that's
> > > easy to learn.
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> > Nah, English was a lot easier for me to learn than Spanish, French, or
> > Russian.
> >
> > And then there are the Chinese, who have no "phonetic principle" at all,
>but
> > they learn Chinese and can readily read each others' writing even
>though, when
> > spoken, the dialects are mutually unintelligible.
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