For hundreds of years, English speakers and learners have had to struggle with written English. But now there is a new way of writing that is easy to learn, read and write because it's consistent in spelling. One of the main problems with a unified phonetic or phonemic written language for English, is that there are too many different accents and dialects throughout the world. The phonemes used by one accent can be completely different to another. These differences even include the shifting of vowels between accents - if you were to write one word with a specific letter using one accent, another accent would need to use a different letter. However, with the Expressive English Alphabet, these problems have been minimized as much as possible.
For example:
This letter (Λ) represents the sound of 'a' in 'cat'. This letter can also be used in the word 'chance' (CΛNS). However, many speakers would not pronounce this word with the 'Λ', but instead (CANS) with an 'A', which represents the 'a' in 'hard'.
Another example:
In many North American accents, this letter 'A' would have to be used for both of these words 'Hard' and 'Not' as they normally both have the same vowel sound (HARD / NAT). However, in most other accents, these two words have different vowel sounds, so they are written like this:
HARD
NꙘT
Another example:
In many North American accents, there is a difference in vowel pronunciation between these two words:
Law
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So, they have to have different vowels representing the different sounds:
LꙘ
MΔR
However, in most other accents, this change does not happen, so both of these words are spelled with the same letter:
LΔ
MΔR
The Expressive English Alphabet also allows for other differences in pronunciation, however you will have to watch the free video lessons to learn more about this alphabet. If you would like to learn more, please follow the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD021uohFmVplyqKrSXQxvRf5T4Wxbxg1
If you like what you see, please share this alphabet with anyone you think would be interested. I hope you enjoy learning about what I believe can be the next official English writing system.
- Druetim
April 2020
Kommentarer
May 2020 It's an amazing initiative; but, what about other accents? Like the ones spoken in Commonwealth countries? Your system would definitely not work in those cases. Maybe, it may work for a few American accents. |
![]() | kurt_zandeApril 2020 This is an interesting form of English. Although it appears to restrict the number of pronunciations to one, it does improve its depiction of how it is pronounced. However, I suspect it may make English more difficult. |