Refining The Alphabet
Quaunaut
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<div class="IPBDescription">Lets think of Letters we don't need.</div> Ok, I'm gonna go through with the pronunciations of these, and find letters that aren't worth having. We need to decrease amounts of letters. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
A: Needed
B: Needed
C: Not Needed. K or S can do it for it. "Sity" "Kanon"
D: Needed
E: Needed
F: Needed
G: Needed
H: Needed
I: Needed
J: Needed
K: Needed
L: Needed
M: Needed
N: Needed
O: Needed
P: Needed
Q: Not Needed. "Kwaunaut or Kwidditch or Kwick."
R: Needed
S: Needed
T: Needed
U: Needed
V: Needed
W: Needed
X: Not needed. "Ecks" "Ecksplain" "Eckskuse me"
Y: Needed
Z: Not needed. Just put 2 s' in "Masse" "Boss"(you know him. )
See what I mean? They just aren't needed. I SAY GET RID OF THEM!
And we need to respell pie to pai and cake to caek.
Cause Caek and pai are good.
And these non-needed letters are:
A: Needed
B: Needed
C: Not Needed. K or S can do it for it. "Sity" "Kanon"
D: Needed
E: Needed
F: Needed
G: Needed
H: Needed
I: Needed
J: Needed
K: Needed
L: Needed
M: Needed
N: Needed
O: Needed
P: Needed
Q: Not Needed. "Kwaunaut or Kwidditch or Kwick."
R: Needed
S: Needed
T: Needed
U: Needed
V: Needed
W: Needed
X: Not needed. "Ecks" "Ecksplain" "Eckskuse me"
Y: Needed
Z: Not needed. Just put 2 s' in "Masse" "Boss"(you know him. )
See what I mean? They just aren't needed. I SAY GET RID OF THEM!
And we need to respell pie to pai and cake to caek.
Cause Caek and pai are good.
And these non-needed letters are:
Comments
C: Not Needed. K or S can do it for it. "Sity" "Kanon"
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but if you don't need c then you can't spell cake as caek it would have to be kaek <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
X: Not needed. "Ecks" "Ecksplain" "Eckskuse me"
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No more C, so you'd have have say "Eks".
X: Not needed. "Ecks" "Ecksplain" "Eckskuse me"
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No more C, so you'd have have say "Eks". <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
HAHAH! Quaunaut just owned himself.
I guess everyone named Xavier (zay-vee-ur), or who plays the xylophone no longer exist. (And personally I'd rather not ekssist)
Similarly, the town of Zyzzyx will need a new name. And how will you have nothing, if you don't have Zero?
And less pointed, daquiris would be much sharper. But I honestly can't think of any particular argument for keeping Q around, other than that it looks much more elegant to ask a question than a kwestion.
there are a crapload of symbols in the phonetic alphabet. check out the pronunciation guide of a big fat dictionary!
I think Japanese and English need to swap character sets. There are relatively few phonetic sounds in Japanese, but there are hundreds and hundreds of characters. Whereas there are many, many phoenetic sounds in English but very few characters. Also, if we're talking general usefulness as a character set, there are sounds which aren't in English which the English character set has difficulty with.
Basically it'd need to be extended, not made smaller:
c<b>a</b>t, c<b>ar</b>, h<b>a</b>te, d<b>o</b>g, l<b>oo</b>k, d<b>o</b>, h<b>i</b>t, h<b>ei</b>ght, p<b>e</b>t, h<b>er</b>, p<b>ea</b>, h<b>u</b>t. Also the "neutral" vowel sound: cir<b>u</b>s.
Most of the consonants are pretty straight forward, but there's also:
<b>ch</b>ance, <b>sh</b>ip, <b>wh</b>ale (yes, the "wh" sound is actually a different pronounciation to "w"). Various language also need the gutteral "h" sound (often written as "ch").
X: Not needed. "Ecks" "Ecksplain" "Eckskuse me"
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No more C, so you'd have have say "Eks". <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
HAHAH! Quaunaut just owned himself. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
nuff said.
Actually newspeak was centered around the removal of "un needed" expression, not making language incoherent <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Thus "Excellent" In NewSpeak is "doubleplusgood" and in Quans language its "Eekssellent"
EDIT: I swear Necrotic's post wasn't there when I posted this.
Nah ill stick with mt 26 LETTER ALPHABET !!!!!11!!1oneoneelvenone