LL-L "Orthography" 2002.03.02 (02) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Orthography"

Andy wrote:

> What are the 'Scots' spellings? I would argue, for example

By this I just meant any non-English spellings used in one's
Scots orthography. It doesn't really matter whether it's a
traditionally Scots spelling or something you've devised
yourself.

A simple example of this is that you could dramatically
simplify your orthography by introducing a rule that <y>
should always be used in Scots for /@i/ and /a:I/ (whether
a length indicator should be added is a separate issue).

However, any such simplifying principles in a Scots
orthography are generally overridden when they conflict
with English spellings, for the sake of recognisability.
This makes the orthography so irregular it can't really
be taught as a system.

I do feel an awful lot could be acheived very quickly in
Scots orthography if the "recognisability" criterion could
be dropped.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
                          - C.W.Wade,
                    'The Adventures o McNab'
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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Orthography

Sandy, Andy, Lowlanders,

Everything Sandy wrote above would, in my opinion, apply to Low Saxon
(Low German) of Germany if you wrote "Low Saxon (Low German)" instead of
"Scots" and "(High) German" instead of "English."  In fact, creating a
generally applicable (also in the Netherlands) system would be
relatively easy if people were not stuck to the old idea that the
writing of their "dialects" is beholden to German spelling, and it is
this introduction of elements from an essentially foreign system that
makes the orthography haphazard and difficult rather than regular and
easy.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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