As fun as these spelling reforms are to consider, there are issues I didn't touch on in the video: Sometimes an S is not an S, but should it remain one? Would the plural of "table" be "tablez" or "tablz" while hat and cat for example are still pluralized as "hats" and "cats"? Things also start to get messy with thorn and eth when both are acceptable pronounciations. For example, "paþs" and "paðz" are both acceptable ways to say the plural of "path". This starts to veer into the territory of accent/dialect differences where both cases are correct in their own right, and imposing a single spelling would not be universally helpful. On the topic of the Q, maybe it would just be easier to get rid of Q in favour of K and replace all "QU" with "KW". Would the other additions actually solve more problems or would they just be a bit annoying? I don't know :shrug: I'm sure there are many potential issues I haven't considered, but I think we should be open to discussing potential changes (not necessarily these ones), even if the new way might look weird at first.
@ybrahimpalateo1709
Жыл бұрын
C is doesn't have used because same /k/ C is front of A , O , U K is front of E , I , Y
@ybrahimpalateo1709
Жыл бұрын
Like a German rules?
@AllYourMemeAreBelongToUs
Жыл бұрын
At 1:44 you used to represent the solitary velar nasal in _“getting”_ and the velar nasal + voiced velar plosive in _”english”_. This means that in your system represents both /ŋ/ _and_ /ŋg/.
@josiahjack455
Жыл бұрын
Plurality would just be the same word as singular. Try it out! Turns out the s for plural is wholly unnecessary. You can just start to use word that way and no matter how many time you'd be tempted to add an s it just isn't needed as the context is sufficient to know what the word mean. See 'deer' for how we already started to improve english this way. See 'fish' for where we are on the fence. Unless I said something like 'the dog ate the cat' and you'd be wondering if there were more than one of either I guess.... but that's just a setup for meme and joke material so call it a win.
@wigley7610
9 ай бұрын
Paðs Is Seilent ð
@mollof7893
Жыл бұрын
Your changes are significantly better
@Jade-Cat
Жыл бұрын
using three different sources for letters for /ʃ/, /tʃ/, and /ʒ/ in the original was... definitely a choice
@Imacrab398
3 ай бұрын
I like ðis spelliŋ reform. It's very intuitive and eazy to get used to.
@williamkeitaro8910
9 ай бұрын
extra changed that i think will make it better: Q actually makes a ''k'' sound since its paired with ''u'' so its sounds like ''kw'' so i can just remove the letter entirely and replace it with a K, this is better since it will also work with words borrowed from Arabic containing the letter question = kuesion queue = kiue queen = kueen X doesnt have its own sound, so i think lets make it used for the ''gh'' if it has a sound lets just add the letter A before the I in words like mIght, rIght, sIght i should also remove the silent G, so the words become maixt, raixt, saixt Lets also add the letter Æ for the ''Æ'' sound cat = cæt bat = bæt Lets also add the letter ''ø'' for the ''oo'' sound tooth = tøþ or tøð goose = gøes flood = flaød And lets add the letter ''Å'' for the ''U'' sounds in words like Under, Umbrella, so they become Ånder, Åmbrella
@itsYakuza
Жыл бұрын
Looks a lot like the (Serbo-)Croatian alphabet
@alechinshaw5990
5 ай бұрын
Ðis is how mi spelling of Englisch wold loke. Right off ðe bat, I’m adding ð and þ as måst wold. I’m also adding ðe å character as seen in ðe continental Scandinavian languages. Ðe å wold måstly be ðere for ðe oh sound, as many of ðem originally were pronounced wiþ ðe ah-sound, but ðen it heightened and became ðe oh sound, and ðats hwi we have ðe oa. Ånoðer þing to add is ðat I am restoring ðe Germanic umlauts, ä ö and ü. Men = män, fell = fäll, goose = göse, health = hälþ, foot = föte, green = gröne, fill = füll, mice = müce, etc. And hwile ðe ä wold remain ðe e or i sound, ðe ö and ü wold be changed to ðeir original sound before ðey merged wiþ e and i. Ðe schort ö wold be pronounced [œ], hwile ðe längþen ö wold be produced [yː] instäd of [øː] because ðis version I made is a åne ðats applicable wiþ ðe great vowel schift. Same goes for ðe ü sound. Schort ü is [ʏ] hwile ðe long ü is [ɔʏ]. Anoðer change is ðat ðe sh-sound is back to being spelled as sch like in German, and Middle English. Ðe ou in should and could is just o now. De long u is now spelled eu, as ðe true long-u in Englisch is ðe ou as in out, hwitch you can alså spell as just a u like wiþ ðe long I. Ðe wh is now spelled hw like in old Englisch. For ðe ü, you can alså euse ðe y letter, but ðen you wold have to euse ðe j for ðe y sound.
@Henry-em6wf
2 ай бұрын
Earlier today I watched the same video and did the same thing as you and made a borderline the same alphabet!? I’m in awe
@EvdogMusic
10 ай бұрын
I independently came to a similar conclusion as you recently: * Added č, š, ž, and ŋ like you did, but left c and s alone. * Did the same q reform. * Used ť for /θ/ for consistency and to prevent visual ambiguity between Þþ and Pp, and Ðð with Dd; left the more common /ð/ alone as th. * Renamed w from "double-u" to "wynn", after Ƿ.
@lancemarchetti8673
Жыл бұрын
Interesting concept. But I imagine such a change would present quite a challenge to programmers who depend on decoding methods like Base64 etc,
@jekanyika
Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of suckerpinch's Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters video. Tbf they are about different things but I cant help where my brain goes.
@syryously
Жыл бұрын
Closer. Still though why eth and thorn? They are only slightly different so maybe a caret over one. C could replace K, then Č for ch as you said.. I learned Cyrillic when I was young and created a few alphabets over the years for fun. Phonetic alphabets are ideal. You pinned a pist about dialects though: someone suggesting to use tablz instead of tabls. I suppose with a North American audience we might as well start spelling bottle, bodil as well 😂
@sirrandalot
Жыл бұрын
Yeah the wide variety of different pronounciations for what is generally understood as the same word is kind of the main issue when trying to retcon a more phonetic alphabet.
@weirdboo
3 ай бұрын
Cyrillic is so much better for custom english phonetic alphabets. So many weird letters and tricks you can pull. If you try hard with the latin alphabet, it ends up looking like vietnamese lol
@Friday.S
8 ай бұрын
You could actually interpret CH as as palatalized T and J as a palatalized D in symmetry to SH and S as in "pleasure" being palatalized S and Z :)
@Nerf_Jeez
Жыл бұрын
Pretty cool, i wish you had more examples of use cases in there
@aypibar3478
5 ай бұрын
And let me suggest as well that we dont need to have two types of upper and lower case of alphabet. Only one functions 100% efficiently. You might ask what about the proper names. Well, perfect question- and the solution is also very easy. We can only agree on a symbol to come before the proper names showing them belong to a specific Pearson or a place. For instance: ~david moved from ~london to ~tokyo. See! The (~) symbole does the job perfectly. I am always advocating reforms on alphabet and languages.
@keiichiiownsu12
5 ай бұрын
dumb question: why not make a ligature for ing? something like ŋ with a dot over the left stroke
@jacobmpp
Жыл бұрын
I didn't even realize the th in this and these was pronounced differently.
@esbj0rnsson
Жыл бұрын
I’ve seen all of your videos, I’m a true fan!
@vantablacknl
Жыл бұрын
you just discovered how serbian works
@sirrandalot
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I always thought that was neat. Can't help but wonder how long it will last before it eventually shifts with time
@vantablacknl
Жыл бұрын
@@sirrandalot its been like this snice the 1800s so it hasnt changed regarding the rule of 1 sound for 1 letter
@itsYakuza
Жыл бұрын
@@sirrandaloti don't think it'll change, it's used by 4 languages for hundreds of years already!
@madladdie7069
Жыл бұрын
wait, the two pronunciations of "the" is an accent difference? I'd always thought the pronunciation is based on whether it's followed by a vowel or not.
@frafraplanner9277
10 ай бұрын
The accents that say the with the /i/ sound only do it in front of vowels and the other accents never use the /i/ sound in the
@EvdogMusic
5 ай бұрын
Armchair Historian uses /i/ for all of his the's, which is unusual
@lofwyr5063
Жыл бұрын
Fixing English -> Switch to Anglish (aka, return to Germonke)
@VianiPZN-
Ай бұрын
Honestly, I þink ðis is the best proposal so far. Šure it doesn't fix every išue however eŋlish spelliŋ is so fucked by now þat þat is impossible anyway. It's easy, intuitive, and doesn't čange too muč. Nise work!
@VianiPZN-
Ай бұрын
Hope I didn't make any mistakes O_○
@perla5465
13 күн бұрын
onustlɛ, ɪ þinq ðis iz ðə best prəpσzul sσ fɑː. xɔ it duzunt fiks evrɛ ixu hawevə ɪŋlix sbeliŋ iz sσ fuqd up bɪ naw ðat ðat iz imposibəl enɛwe'. itz ɛzɛ, intuitiv, and duzunt ce'ny tu mʌch. nɪs wək! Hσp ɪ didunt me'k enɛ misde'kz 0_O
@1987rickjoy
3 ай бұрын
0:54 the word karakter does exist in turkish language
@spyro3635
Жыл бұрын
You could borrow from polish where the letter c is used for ts (almost) sound and it feels a bit weird having č without plain c.
@jackanderson5834
10 ай бұрын
This feels eerily similar to Old English (especially the defaced C)
@TITANICCREATOR
9 ай бұрын
I’m just saying the eng and ž šouldn’t be added because you’ll only see ðem when you šout ðem.
@steakbbq
Жыл бұрын
remove double leters
@zidane8452
9 ай бұрын
Definitely not. Some should be remove like in the word annoy abd but words like puzzle is 2 syllables, the double Z there is necessary
@regina_george340
7 ай бұрын
what about g being g and also j
@Lulugu
4 ай бұрын
👍
@ivanruiz2218
Жыл бұрын
it looks kool
@ender5312
7 ай бұрын
1:45 I pink oeze are cangez oat I wouldn’t mind gettin in oe enlis alphabet.
@ender5312
7 ай бұрын
Panks for wacin!
@MK-mm7ui
Жыл бұрын
Use X for «sh»
@natthanonknot2974
Жыл бұрын
what does Þis say?
@r.henryjr.1533
10 ай бұрын
It says this
@panzerofthelake4460
Жыл бұрын
add more digits to our numbers system
@strykerlindsey-b4o
8 ай бұрын
ðeez nuts
@sirrandalot
8 ай бұрын
got eem
@ElHolyBoy
9 ай бұрын
I see a bit of nit picking about pronunciation and accent/dialect. Emphasizing a simplified and standardized utilitarian alphabet is more important-- to me. Controlling for all the ways in which anyone could, or would, pronounce a word seems AB impossible task.
@baso53
Жыл бұрын
Congratulations, you just invented Croatian alphabet
@Zethlynn
11 ай бұрын
My problem with using ŋ is that i pronounce the k or g after it, making ŋ pointless for me since ng and nk tells me the n sound is different and what sound to make after it
@gunjfur8633
10 ай бұрын
The NG in the words singer & finger are not pronounced the same
@Zethlynn
10 ай бұрын
@@gunjfur8633 in my dialect they are
@Starbox_oficial
9 ай бұрын
Þæmer
@Starbox_oficial
9 ай бұрын
ÁƁÇÐÉFĜĤÍĴĶĹMŃÑÓPQŔßÞÚVŴXŸŹ
@ItzAzzurite
10 ай бұрын
Exkuse me but what about "ñ"?
@gunjfur8633
10 ай бұрын
English doesnt have a use for it
@ItzAzzurite
9 ай бұрын
@@gunjfur8633 The NI in the word onion makes the same sound as ñ
@gunjfur8633
9 ай бұрын
@@ItzAzzurite Incorrect, the N and I are in different syllables, as in /ʌn.jən/
@brawlwith_me
Жыл бұрын
So you want a language like Hindi...
@Sinoxa2
Жыл бұрын
"Less ambiguousness" - are you seriously not going to correct that to "less ambiguity" ?
@sirrandalot
Жыл бұрын
Damn, I knew there was a shorter word I was looking for ... But you understood me anyways so at least it wasn't ambiguous ;)
@AstroEli133
Жыл бұрын
But why would we need something that says NG when NG works just as well, and why would we need Q since KW works just as well?
@sirrandalot
Жыл бұрын
Excellent points, see my pinned comment for more potential issues :)
@EvdogMusic
10 ай бұрын
Do you pronounce "Singer" like "Sin-ger"?
@gunjfur8633
10 ай бұрын
The NG in the words singer & finger are not pronounced the same
@zaludaoldrich
Жыл бұрын
...and get rid of all silent letters. These drive me mad. Silently.
@Nikedemos
Жыл бұрын
So we're just gonna ignore the "ph" altogether, huh.
@flippy2
Жыл бұрын
the the gh and wh
@ElHolyBoy
9 ай бұрын
F
@zidane8452
9 ай бұрын
F
@ElijahNazars
2 ай бұрын
u can use the greek Φ for ph or just revert it down to f
@imagenatura
Жыл бұрын
Any attempt at making English simpler will result in it being more complicated with even more exceptions. Sorry.
@eliweinman1904
9 ай бұрын
true, if you change the alphabet you will need to fix the spelling of words, which seems simple enough but then you find more and more problems, though i think a simpler english alphabet (utilises more accent marks to distinguish different letter sounds) and a spelling reform would be amazing, the likelihood of that being feasible to do seems quite difficult though i definitely think it is possible just will take a lot of work.
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