Normalyzed Inglish

By Rodríguez Peña, Mario

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Title:	Normalyzed Inglish
Author:	Rodríguez Peña, Mario
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, General Works (Periodicals, Series, idexes, Almanacs, etc.)
Collections:	Reference, Authors Community
Historic Publication Date:	2018
Publisher:	Independently published

Member Page:	Mario Rodríguez Peña
Citation APA MLA Chicago Rodríguez Peña, B. M. (2018). Normalyzed Inglish. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Normalyzed Inglish was one of the English orthographies that passed the sifting process and was forwarded to the Expert Commission following the first session of the International English Spelling Congress.

Summary
Normalyzed Inglish was one of the English orthographies that passed the sifting process and was forwarded to the Expert Commission following the first session of the International English Spelling Congress.

Excerpt
English speakers are used to Latin alphabet, and although English sounds would need more characters, a reform in the alphabet, although academically more correct, would be surely rejected by the most of population and it would distance English language from other important languages coded by Latin alphabet. So, this present reform will use Latin alphabet, doing its best, and without the use of diacritics, unnatural for English language. The pronunciation referred in this proposal is the Received Pronunciation (RP), because it is the nowhere standard of English. However, curiously this reform will be closer to American orthography because this is closer to pronunciation than British orthography, thanks to the Noah Webster reform. Although this proposal uses RP and it is closer to American orthography, it has correspondences to other varieties of English, for instance: 1. In this proposal, the digraph is used to represent the original /U/ sound to distinguish from the caret /V/ sound commonly represented by a single . In Hiberno-English there would not be distinction between and , both pronounced as /U/. 2. /T/ and /D/ sounds are represented by and respectively, giving that H the value to change plosive /t/ and /d/ sounds to non-sibilant fricative ones in the most of English varieties, except Hiberno-English where and are pronounced as T and D respectively, because this "H modifier" would not have value in this variety of English. 3. The post-vocalic R before consonant or final E is kept in this proposal regardless it is not pronounced in the standard English and most of the accents, which they are non-rhotic, because this R elongate the sound of the preceding vowel and modifies the sound of /i:/ to /I@/ and the sound of /ei/ to /e@/, as Rollings (2004) proposed, and because this letter is still pronounced in rhotic accents such as Hiberno-English. In no case, different spellings depending on the accent are advised, but a common spelling for all English varieties whose variations can be traced through the spelling is the key, because accents usually are simplifications of the main rule. For a succesful reform, changes should be minimized as much as possible because people usually do not like changes in the orthography (although orthography is a social convention with changes over time in most of languages) and this makes it readable by any English-speaker with no previous knowledge on this orthography. This minimization in orthographical changes makes this proposal a compromise between a radical and a conservative one. In order to minimize changes, each sound will be assigned to the most used spelling and the huge amount of exceptions shall be rewritten according to the general proposed spelling rule, thus getting a predictable spelling. This proposal agrees with Noah Webster's spelling and goes beyond orthographies like that of Axel Wijk's "Regularized Inglish", thus reducing irregularities.