Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

Post by gurkendoktor » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 5:04 PM UTC

oskarth wrote: post #97

Cushman wrote: post #33

This seems like it could actually be a real improvement on written Latin if it adopted a real phonetic alphabet. Just transposing all of my existing graphemes for new, smaller ones seems a little silly. (And since what you're really asking is not for people to learn a new alphabet, but to learn a new symbol for every word in their lexicon, it wouldn't be that much more of a leap. Think about it.) Thinking about it--…

There's simpel-fonetik, which is extremely intuitive. It's basically a mapping from IPA to latin letters. Example: When you read Simpel-Fonetik words, you must pay attention to each letter. Remember: each letter has always the same sound, the sound given in the Simpel-Fonetik alphabet, regardless what letter is next to it. And here it is re-written in Simpel-Fonetik: Wen ju riid Simpel-Fonetik wörds, ju mast pei äten…

Post by noonat » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 12:21 AM UTC

meepmorp wrote: post #129

noonat wrote: post #104

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I've been learning Hangul recently, and now every language that doesn't encode syllables into the writing system just seems immensely flawed to me. Hangul seems like a very intuitive, logical writing system. There are relatively few exceptions to the rules it sets out, though I think that's likely because it's such a young language -- more and more seem to be creeping in over time as dialects evolve.

> I think that's likely because it's such a young language Do you mean language or writing system? Hangul is ~500 years old, comparatively new for a somewhat widely used writing system, though it's an odd case given that it's not really adapted from another system. The Korean language itself is much older.

Post by baby » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 8:22 PM UTC

suby wrote: post #88

Cushman wrote: post #33

This seems like it could actually be a real improvement on written Latin if it adopted a real phonetic alphabet. Just transposing all of my existing graphemes for new, smaller ones seems a little silly. (And since what you're really asking is not for people to learn a new alphabet, but to learn a new symbol for every word in their lexicon, it wouldn't be that much more of a leap. Think about it.) Thinking about it--…

I'm going to school right now to become a court reporter / stenographer. Basically, I type on a funny looking keyboard ( http://www.acculaw.com/images/products/display/stenograph%20... ) where you're not so much typing letters as much as you're typing sounds. So the word "talk", for example would be written "tauk", with each letter of the word pressed at the same time (if possible. Some words you need to come back fo…