English is an endless deluge of that experience, because our orthography is bullshit. People have tried to fix it. Their clever rules were partly adopted and became even more exceptions and special cases.
I just learned of the Shavian Alphabet yesterday. It’s designed specifically for English and fits it well, except the sounds in it are so specific that when you write in it, you have to write in a specific regional accent. Fortunately it can’t become a new set of special cases because it’s an entirely new script not related to Latin.
I more or less agree, but you keep using “believe” when you ought to use “belief.” Just FYI.
Ups, thanks. Totally missed that.
“Oops.”
Even more material for the “words you have been using wrong” thread.
English is an endless deluge of that experience, because our orthography is bullshit. People have tried to fix it. Their clever rules were partly adopted and became even more exceptions and special cases.
Yep.
I just learned of the Shavian Alphabet yesterday. It’s designed specifically for English and fits it well, except the sounds in it are so specific that when you write in it, you have to write in a specific regional accent. Fortunately it can’t become a new set of special cases because it’s an entirely new script not related to Latin.
𐑲 𐑔𐑦𐑙𐑒 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑢𐑰 𐑷𐑤 𐑖𐑫𐑛 𐑣𐑨𐑝 𐑩 𐑜𐑴 𐑨𐑑 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑩𐑛𐑪𐑐𐑑𐑦𐑙 𐑦𐑑 𐑯 𐑕𐑰 𐑢𐑪𐑑 𐑣𐑨𐑐𐑩𐑯𐑟 𐑢𐑧𐑯 𐑢𐑰 𐑔𐑦𐑙𐑒 𐑩𐑚𐑬𐑑 𐑢𐑻𐑛𐑟 𐑦𐑯 𐑕𐑦𐑤𐑩𐑚𐑩𐑤𐑟 𐑦𐑯𐑕𐑑𐑧𐑛 𐑝 𐑤𐑧𐑑𐑼𐑟.
At that point, surely we’d use the International Phonetic Alphabet instead.
The letter shapes are a lot nicer and they can all be written easily with a single stroke. IPA is really ugly IMHO.