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Inventing my own writing system for English, VJScript
By the end of this post, you will be able to read and create your own English sentences in VJScript, a writing system I invented. As a sneak peak, here’s what it looks like:
Why did these people spend years of their lives and (in the case of Teddy Roosevelt) risk ridicule from the press to reform English spelling? Here's the vowel inventory:VowelExampleIPA (for linguists and nitpickers)EEb ee t/biːt/Ib i t/bɪt/EIb ai t/beɪt/Eb e t/bɛt/AEb a t/bæt/AWb ou ght/bɔːt/OAb oa t/boʊt/Øb oo k/bʊk/Ub u t/bʌt/AIb i te/baɪt/OWb ou t/baʊt/OYb oy/bɔɪ/Ob oo t/buːt/ And now the consonants:ConsonantExampleIPA (for linguists and nitpickers)Kkite/kaɪt/Ggood/ɡʊd/NGsing/sɪŋ/CHchoose/tʃuːz/Jjump/dʒʌmp/T t ype, be tt er/taɪp/, /ˈbɛɾɚ/THthink, this/θɪŋk/, /ðɪs/Ddo/duː/Nnice/naɪs/Ppop/pɒp/Bbob/bɒb/Ffun/fʌn/Mmill/mɪl/Yyes/jɛs/Rrun/rʌn/Llook/lʊk/Vvoice/vɔɪs/Ssit/sɪt/Zzoo/zuː/SHshine/ʃaɪn/ZHmeasure/ˈmɛʒər/The consonant and vowel inventories do not perfectly map one-to-one with English sounds. After all, the language was never regulated by a central authority the way French and Spanish are (MLA doesn’t count), which makes launching a set of reforms like this very difficult.
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