Re: New phonemic writing system and IPA usage

From: peter_constable@sil.org
Date: Sun Aug 22 1999 - 20:27:26 EDT


>>The reason English is interesting to learn is not any
       fundamental property >of English, more that there is a huge
       amount of _written_ information and >literate people, in
       English. Changing English orthography would break >that.

>As I state earlier, regularizing it with minor corrections
       according to Wijk's very sensible scheme would not.

       But making as drastic a change as to adopt CC would!

       Peter



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