Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f8KK4mf16690; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:04:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:04:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3BAA4803.88A6950@udel.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Ken Todd <kentodd@UDel.Edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:6449] Re: X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) Status: O Content-Length: 3899 Lines: 97 How does your spelling system capture etymological and derivational relationships between words? Tom Zurinskas wrote: > > I've been investigating respelling languages. I have respelled English > totally phonetically. The idea now is to see how many different phonemes > are out there that could not be handled by the English 40-phoneme set and > thus need special spellings. My initial look into 30 words/phrases from > word-of-the-day at travlang.com for 13 major languages other than English > shows that 10 new phonemes are needed for these languages (I may not have > them all yet). But the percentage is what is most interesting. They make > up only 5% of the total. If this trend holds up, the basic 40 phonemes of > English make up 95% of the used phonemes of world language. So a phonetic > spelling of English has large transfer possibilities. > > Even within English, the 40 phonemes (sounds) of English are spelled all > kinds of ways (My analysis found nearly 400 ways). This makes it difficult > to learn. Truespel uses a spelling set favorable to English. It also is a > pronunciation guide because it shows stress sylables in a word by putting a > double consonant before them (defaul stress is first syllable. It is public > at the address below so teachers and students have open access. Developers > are welcome. > > tom zurinskas > truespel@hotmail.com > > <HTML><BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> > <!-- START MESSAGE AFTER THIS LINE--> > > <!-- END YOUR MAIL MESSAGE BEFORE THIS LINE--> > <p><a Target="_top" href="http://www.flamingtext.com/hmail.html" ><img > src="http://hmail.flamingtext.com/hmail/01/05/15/flamingtext_com.122515866.jpg" > border=0 alt="Image by FlamingText.com"></a> > <br>Image by <a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/hmail.html" > >FlamingText.com</a> > </BODY></HTML> > Convert English to truespel (USA accent) by copy/pasting at > http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/truespel/transpel.htm > > Truespel is the world’s first phonetic spelling based on English, using no > special symbols, showing syllabic stress, and proposed for all languages. > See truespel.com. Also see > http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/Truespel-1.html > > >From the 59,000-werd truespel dictionary > The key to the 40 soundz of Eenglish (USA accent) > ID # sound % Sample words > v1 i 9.9% sit > v2 ee 5.0% see > v3 er 3.4% her > v4 u 3.3% up > v5 e 2.6% beg > v6 a 2.1% bad > v7 ae 2.1% sundae > v8 aa 1.9% aardvark,Saab > v9 ie 1.4% pie > v10 oe 1.4% toe > v11 oo 1.2% good > v12 ue 1.2% blue > v13 or 0.7% or > v14 au 0.4% auger > v15 air 0.4% fair > v16 ou 0.4% out > v17 oi 0.1% toil > k1 n,nn 7.8% in > k2 s,ss 6.8% sin > k3 t,tt 6.8% tip > k4 l,ll 5.4% lift > k5 k,kk 4.1% kid > k6 d,dd 4.0% did > k7 r,rr 3.9% rat > k8 z,zz 3.7% zap > k9 p,pp 3.3% pub > k10 m,mm 3.0% mist > k11 g,gg 2.6% good > k12 b,bb 1.7% bad > k13 f,ff 1.7% fair > k14 y,yy 1.6% yet > k15 sh,ssh 1.2% wish > k16 v,vv 1.2% van > k17 w,ww 1.2% wag > k18 j,jj 0.8% just > k19 h,hh 0.7% hat > k20 ch,cch 0.5% chin > k21 thh,tthh 0.3% thin > k22 th,tth 0.1% that > k23 zh,zzh 0.1% vision > 100.0% > > > > Truespel Dikshinairee > toetool foeneemz = 432,058 > toetool werdz = 59,252 > foeneemz per werd = 7.3 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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