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How can we expect kids to learn to read a language that's taken an alphabet and created a poor woman's logogram out of it? wi hæv ɔl ðə tulz wi nid tə tɝn ˈɪŋɡ
by llm_trw 2y ago
How can we expect kids to learn to read a language that's taken an alphabet and created a poor woman's logogram out of it?
wi hæv ɔl ðə tulz wi nid tə tɝn ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ ˈɪntu ə ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ wʌn kæn rid wɪðˈaʊt ˈnidɪŋ fɔr jɪrz ˈtutərɪŋ. jɛt wi doʊnt bɪˈkəz ɪd bi tu mʌtʃ wɝk.
- 082349872349872 2y agosee also https://www.shavian.info https://www.shavian.info (the Achilles heel: any phonetically spelled language can only be correct for at most one dialect!)
- d110af5ccf 2y agoUnless each spoken dialect corresponds to a matching written dialect. But that just sounds like an even messier system than modern english.
- llm_trw 2y agoThat's an argument for why we should all use Chinese instead.
- Ekaros 2y agoYou can always phonetically spell in the dialect. Which Finnish does often. So if you have a dialect you write it out phonetically. There might be slight deviation from standard phonetics(some vowel variations), but the dialect does get rather close. In the end, maybe it is inherently wrong take that same word in different dialects is the same word. Usually they are close enough to be relatively intelligible.