Re: "Fransin" simplified orthography for French
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: But it is not even consistent. It uses "é" for both "é" and "è" (which > have very different pronunciations in french) and it uses either "un" > or "in" for the same sound ("pain", "commun"...) Ignorance is everywhere. One scheme for English spelling reform involves eliminating the written distinction between "those" and "doze". It was no surprise to me to find out that the inventor is a native New Yorker in his 60s or older, a group which does not make this distinction. Oddly, he was willing to preserve the (much more important) distinction between "thin" and "tin", which he probably doesn't personally make either. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan [email protected] Half the lies they tell about me are true. --Tallulah Bankhead, American actress _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages