LL-L "Orthography" 2002.03.08 (05) [E]

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

> From: "John M. Tait" <jmtait at wirhoose.co.uk>
> Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2002.02.27 (03) [E]
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> Andy wrote:
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> >Using <ea> leaves the words recognisable an thus aids legibility which of
> >course makes sense if I want people to understand what I've written.
>
> Yes, but it doesn't suggest the correct regional pronunciations of the
> words to Scots from areas where the underlying historical phoneme is not
> pronounced [i].
>
> Typically, I don't have any answer to this problem - I can only point out
> what the problem is!

John,

But don't you think that a completely English-independent
orthography like I've been devising would be an answer to
this problem?

I don't think it really matters how clever you get with
diaphonemics, if you're still going to insist on making
your Scots English-like, then the problems aren't going
to go away.

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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