tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post112134984003939534..comments2023-05-29T08:58:13.381-04:00Comments on Recycled Knowledge: Regularized InglishJohn Cowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1162215202292442272006-10-30T08:33:00.000-05:002006-10-30T08:33:00.000-05:00Very well-planned reform - I followed it with bate...Very well-planned reform - I followed it with bated breath. Opinions against it seem to have been voiced by those who do not actually read letter signs but memorise words by heart - hence the experienced difficulty with instantaneous letter-to-sound recognition on their part. Generally, schools do not teach the phonetic value of letters and letter clusters, which results in the students' inability to correctly spell the words, and, incidentally, to appreciate the wisdom and consistency of the spelling reform as it is proposed here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1121735562160780782005-07-18T21:12:00.000-04:002005-07-18T21:12:00.000-04:00Well, it still gave me a headache.Well, it still gave me a headache.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1121496361895255852005-07-16T02:46:00.000-04:002005-07-16T02:46:00.000-04:00I'll post a blog entry on Regularized Inglish at s...I'll post a blog entry on Regularized Inglish at some point. The basic reason for it is that it's a lot less time-consuming and confusing to learn as a child or adult non-native speaker, and not too hard to learn even if you know the existing orthography.<BR/><BR/>Ironically, Regularized Inglish was invented by a Swede named Axel Wijk (of Dutch descent, I presume), and does not represent any specific pronunciation of English. It simply reforms the spellings of the 11% or so of English words which are not spelled by any rule. The remaining rules are complex, but at least they are rules.<BR/><BR/>Regularized Inglish makes English about as easy to read and write as French, orthographically speaking (i.e. the pronunciation can almost always be predicted from the spelling but not always vice versa).<BR/><BR/>As for native vs. non-native speakers, the answer is somewhat vague, because it's vague how good you have to be at English to count as a non-native speaker rather than a non-native non-speaker. But roughly speaking, between 40% and 50% of English-speakers are non-native.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1121418415720936512005-07-15T05:06:00.000-04:002005-07-15T05:06:00.000-04:00Writing as a non-native speaker who reads and writ...Writing as a non-native speaker who reads and writes much more fluently than he speaks and understands spoken English, such a reformed text is very hard to unterstand. <BR/><BR/>English orthography may be irregular, but at least it is mostly standardized (or standardised? ;-). I believe that many, if not most users of English are non-native speakers, so any reform based on some speficic (even if "standard british") pronounciation would not work for them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1121381164164732152005-07-14T18:46:00.000-04:002005-07-14T18:46:00.000-04:00I had to stop after the second paragraph: I could ...I had to stop after the second paragraph: I could feel an aneurysm developing. Why? Why, why, why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com