4 ms·
what do you suggest instead: naif, nife, nyve ..?
by posterboy 8y ago
what do you suggest instead: naif, nife, nyve ..?
- whatsstolat 8y agoMove to a phonetic alphabet. E.g. Arabic.
- posterboy 8y agoWe could also just add accents, diacrits to exhaustion to englissh letters. Without that in arabic you couldn't even tell /a/, /e/, /i/ apart, they are all aleph in word initial position. Our orthographie is phine, your pronnuntzashun is just lazy
- kimmk 8y agoYou can write phonetically on the Latin alphabet perfectly fine, for example Finnish does so. In the case of English, its a matter of standardizing the pronunciation of characters (considering it requires every English speaker to essentially learn to write/read again, just changing the alphabet to Arabic is almost easier).
- Zarath 8y agonife is fine
- gizmo686 8y agoWhy is there an "e" at the end?
- asveikau 8y agoI'm reminded of how English orthography has that weird thing where the presence of a silent E can seemingly change the vowel in the previous syllable. For example the Tom Lehrer song, "who can turn a can into a cane? Silent E..." So a hypothetical "nife" would never be mistaken for "neef", as "nif" could be.
- Izkata 8y agoOr mistaken for niff. [0] (No, I didn't know this word existed before this moment.) [0] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/niff https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/niff