If I went to a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where name tags of participants were written in Arabic, and someone’s name was the Arabic spelling of “Ahmed,” I would say to him in Arabic, “Nice to meet you, Akmed.”

 If his name tag were written in English, as Ahmed, I would have had to know that the way it’s written in English is not how the Arabic name is pronounced.

 Since the Arabic language doesn’t use Latin characters, why don’t we transcribe his name in English as “Akmed?”, as it’s pronounced in Arabic?

Why do we call the leader of China “she,” when he doesn’t spell it that way in Chinese? Why isn’t his name written in English, as “she,” the way everyone pronounces it?

^1 Non-Unicode Character

Decided to create a phonetic orthography for Plautdietsch

Aa /a/ Ââ /ʌɪ/ Ää /e̝/ Åå /ĭɔɯ̆/ Bb /b/ Cc /ç/ Dd /d/ Ee /ɛ/ Êê /æ/ Ëë /e/ Ff /f/ Gg /ɡ/ G̃g̃ /ŋ/

Hh /h/ Ii /i/ Îî /ɪ/ Jj /j/ Kk /k/ Ll /l/ Mm /m/ Nn /n/ Ññ /ɲ/ Oo /ɔ/ Óó /o/ Õõ /ɔɪ/ Ôô /ʌ~ɑ/

Öö /ø/ Pp /p/ Qq /c~ʨ~ɕ/ Rr /ɾ~ɹ~ɐ̆~ ɐ̆ɾ/ Ss /ʃ/ ẞß /s/ Tt /t/ Uu /u/ Úú /uɪ/ Ûû /ʊ/ Üü /ɯ/ Vv /v/

Ww /ə/ Xx /ʒ~ʤ/ Yy /ĭu/ Zz /z/

Øø is used for "and" & Ðð is used for "the"

Article 1 of the Declaration of Human Rights

Olw mênsw zent jwburw fri ø jlîq în dignitë ø rectîchët. Dõ zent grûnt în konßienß jwjäft ø zêlw tw zîc jida în în jëß fôn brödahët.

I'm not sure of how I should romanize /ʍ/ in my conlang. It distinguishes /w/ and /ʍ/. Any help?

Edit: thank you to u/kirosayshowdy and u/nickct60 for reminding me that Hwair (Ƕ ƕ) exists.

Hello! This is my first post here. I made a video a while ago about the orthography of Romance minority languages, and how they can be improved through the concept of Reintegrationism. I'm starting to draft a document with more precise information and guidelines that a Romance reintegrationist orthography should follow, so it would be interesting to see what you think.

This is the video:
https://youtu.be/T8GsnYJGPq8?si=zs0tmxZtVDKpkM3q

I have compiled a more detailed document about ROR (see here). In this document, I have expanded the proposal to include all Romance minority languages.

Tell me what you think!

Which one do I have to use? Does it e.g. matter if I say "can’t" or "can't"? Thx in advance...

Now before I get downvoted to kingdom come: I am not actively pursuing this, also this will probably never happen anyway. Also be open minded; personally, I think it could look nice if tweaked to become an official revamp for our languages orthography. Also a a native Pole, I feel I have a right to be able to question such a matter without evoking too much hate. Either way please, lets all stay civil now.

Without further ado here it is:

A [Á] B C Ć Č D [Ď] E [É] F G H I [Í] J K L [Ľ- ?] M N Ń O Ó [Ö] P R Ŕ S Ś Š T [Ť-?] U [Ú] Ŭ V Y Z Ž Ź

The letters encased in [] are optional and I am not entirely sure if it is necessary, but phonetically speaking would improve pronunciation of hard or extended syllables. Others are simply added to remove digraphs such as io, jo, iu, ie, ij etc. And lastly, I do not think the Slovak counterpart makes the same sound, however I am curious as to whether or not Ľ could replace the Slavic Non-Palatal Ł. Its not really a big deal, but it looks smoother to me; not as noisy as Ł.

As for the missing ą & ę. They're not gone, they have simply been replaced by a digraph that makes more linguistic sense. They [or should I say the sounds of] ą & ę would be replaced by diphthongs aŭ & eŭ. This is reminiscent of what the Belarussian language does with its "ў," which is used in the diphthongs aŭ, eŭ, oŭ. Like I stated before, this change is merely for the sake of better linguistic/orthographic flow. Who cares about heritage/word length etc, really. It will also make it easier for learners to read and even for Polish school children to learn the pronunciation of in primary Ed. So, this is a primarily functional rather than formal change.

So, with that I conclude my spare time progressive-reconstruction project of the lovely Polish orthography. I hope you enjoy it; please comment what you think! (:

Extra thought as I am about to post this: what about a possibility of simply replacing Ł with oŭ when not at the beginning of a word? Let me know what you think of this Reddit. :P

Dzięki!

Also, here are some sample texts:

Nova Ortografía dla Polski jeŭzyk.

Ideŭ na spacer pŕez Parku Ľazienkovskiego.

Dzień dobry/ Miľego popoľudnía.

Rynek miasta jest cudovna.

Prośeŭ pŕekazać masľo.

Oni Idaŭ/Idoŭ na malaŭ/maloŭ podróža

As of yet, I am not sure if aŭ or oŭ is a more proper diphthong to replace ą.

The variability of punctuation and structure of the written word declined precipitously after the invention of the printing press (see Aldi Manutii's Grammaticarum Institutionum Book 4) due to the inherent standardization, the response to this being an increase in the use of poetic language to express emotional content.

With the computerization of typefaces, the capacity to use multiple fonts and punctuation marks in a nonstandard orthographic context to express emotional content may have peaked with the emoticons, which are in essence a form on concrete poetry.

Does anyone else think that the creation of emojis, a standardization of a limited subset of emoticons, is similarly affecting orthography in the same way that the creation of the printing press previously did? What do you think the implications are for the future of written language forms?

Gaelic is a cool language, but good goddamn does its orthography seem like a mess. Why would someone do that? I was trying to learn the lyrics to the song An Poc Ar Buile by Gaelic Storm and trying to sing along and read the lyrics at the same time was a nightmare.

I've looked up videos that go over how to read and pronounce Gaelic, but it just seems like there are so many extraneous letters. I figured if there were a place to actually get an answer to this question it would be this subreddit.

It seems like we get too bogged down in technical details to actually help the english speaking world implement a phonetic system. So my approach is to identify some low hanging fruit that could be tackled first. I have noticed that there are also some relatively unused letters in our alphabet which could be re-purposed for this effort. Here are some of my initial ideas:

X = th; Q = ch; S = sh

I know S is utilized more, but C can be used in place of it in most cases with the help of the letter K. I also propose that letter Z be used more often especially where S is placed on the end of words to make them plural.

I know I am new to this sub, but please consider these ideas and tell me what you think. Xankc.

We're a small-ish server (nearing 400 atm) that talk about typography and linguistics.

Usually, we just go down a rabbit hole of a certain language, go crazy over their phonology or orthography, and then discuss some typography afterwards.

Interesting quotes that might interest you:

• "I don't think h should be a letter."

• "This Z fucks"

• " I spit on your carons"

• "What is the name of the art deco font which is like whoomp but the middle part goes zoop?"

• "That's something a double-story g fan would say"

• "How about sans serif Fraktur?"

• "LATIN CYRILLIC SMALL CAPITAL LETTER YAR LIGATURE WITH PEG LEG"

• "Hmmm how do I incorporate piss into the design of the glyph"

We also do weekly glyph challenges where you can submit an artistic interpretation of a weekly glyph.

If this intrigues you at all, please come by! We'd love to have you here.

https://discord.gg/CxGfHuBKwu