Orthographic reform as a national priority, an ADS responsibility

Sat Oct 13 15:20:33 UTC 2012

Teaching an IPA phonetic system would be the ultimate in educational bullying.  It's not used in USA for phonetics for kids and rightly so,  but neither is any dictionary phonetic system because of special symbols.  Not even for newspapers or govt pubs us IPA or dictionary phonetics.  To remedy this truespel phonetics was born (in 1986 the same year as SAMPA was born which was to replace the IPA).  It can be learned in 15 minutes.  It is copy/paste, filename, and spreadsheet compatible (for analyses).  It allows "writing" phonetics easily for the first time.  In the future all dictionaries, translation guides, and learning texts will be interlinked with the lingua france phonetic spelling through truespel phonetics.  It's free.   See http://justpaste.it/course2  

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk

> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:40:47 +0800
> From: brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Orthographic reform as a national priority,              an ADS responsibility
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Orthographic reform as a national priority, an ADS
>               responsibility
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> >> ADS responsibility for orthographic reform; end prescriptivism
> (linguistic bullying); phonemicized orthography.
> ME: <<<Something along Axel Wijk's Regularized English (one of the "weaker"
> options) is the only thing that would really make sense, in my view.>>
> WB: (1) IPA handbook 1999 & Unicode => phonemicization now obviously more
> feasible than at any time in the past. (2) For starters, simply teach
> native-English-speaking school children an IPA-based paedography, readily
> available for years now in any EFL dictionary. (3) Phase out the spelling
> bee as a grotesque form of linguistic bullying.
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