![]() Every time someone writes a month or day with a leading zero, a computer terrorist has won. It reminds me of the situation where computers, especially with numbers, are essentially forcing people to conform to their logic and style. Is a writing system a tool we use or one that uses us to do its bidding? But that seems like putting the cart before the horse. Logically, you reach a point where the only solution is that your "spelling" system forces you to change how you speak. How are you going to spell/transcribe those for the entire country? Mary, marry and merry are three different pronunciations for some people and all the same for others. And that is not even taking into account mergers. Run eight notes through the musical alphabet and you will return to the original letter, one octave higher. The musical alphabet uses the first seven letters of our alphabet. There is no simple on/off switch you can use. The pitch of each note is identified with a letter from the musical alphabet. Different words overlap regions in individual ways. "Yes, son, I know it's spelled (transcribed?) that way in your book, but here's how you really say it."Īnd these individual pronunciations don't form discrete groups, by region for instance. It wouldn't be, in principle, different from the current system. IPA spelling would require that somebody (millions of people actually) would see a word spelled in a way that didn't match their experience. Seeing the traditional spelling let's everyone know what the word is, however they pronounce it. The idea of an "American" option is a bit of a fantasy. But there are multiple pronunciations of many words within the U.S., too.
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