Objections raised in a letter to Franklin were "All our etymologies would be lost, consequently we could not ascertain the meaning of many words; the distinction, too, between words of different meaning and similar sound would be useless, unless we living writers publish new editions. In short I believe we must let people spell on in their old way, and (as we find it easiest) do the same ourselves." As far as the last objection goes, we have new technology that didn't exist in Franklin's day that allows us to convert books and large volumes of text from one system to another in real-time on PCs, tablets and phones. The solution to homophones is to simply combine the meanings. Most of our words have multiple meanings anyway. Etymologies are mostly unknown by most people anyway. That's what dictionaries are made for. This person who responded to Franklin was cut from the same cloth as the people who said, "We can't adopt the Metric System because we have millions of blueprints that were made using Imperial Units" and "cars will never replace good ole dependable horses!". These people hold up a dollar to fret over a nickel.
BTW there's no need to force people who grew up using the current system (like me) to use 7M. We just start teaching it to the kids and providing them with digital versions of books that are converted. Also we roll out hardcover textbooks for the school kids that have been converted and reprinted using the new system. BTW, ћer'z no nεd tu fors pεpl hq grq up yqziŋ ћu krrint sistum (luεk mε) tu yqz 7M. Wε just stʌrt tεciŋ it tq ћu kids and pruvʌεdiŋ ћem wiћ dijitl vr⋈unz uv bůks ћat ʌr kunvrtid. Also wε rol aqt tekstbůks for ћu skql kids ћat hav ben kunvrtid and rεprintid yqziŋ ћu nq sistum. (7M Funetik Iŋglix)
I LOVE your comments!!! I am also perplexed by why we have not evolved to a writing system that makes more sense!! And I think that every time I encounter a child who is struggling to learn to read. And the extremely non-phonetic nature of the English alphabet makes their struggle exponentially greater, for no real reason!! Language is fluid, dynamic, organic, and it is hard to mandate changes. However, as you said, we now have technology to help us in ways that were unimaginable in days past. So, I am hopeful that the English alphabet will evolve!
Ben Franklin created an alphabet? I'll have to check that out because I invented one as well and I repurposed the 'c' to represent just the 'ch' sound ('crc' = church).
@@Bakul-Soman Ok. Bear in mind that it's not intended to be used by phoneticists for Phonetic transcription. It is intended to replace our 26 character common use alphabet so that we can have an actual alphabet that matches the definition of 'alphabet'.
7M Phonetic Alphabet: [uppercase]: H, U, Ŋ, G, I, N, V, ᐱ, ⴵ D, W, E, Ћ, Z, R, P, T K, L, Q, F, S, M, A, X Y, O, J, ᖶ,Ђ, B, Ů, C and Ɂ (glottal stop) [lower case]: h, u, ŋ, g, i, n, v, ʌ, ⋈ d, w, ε, ћ, z, r, p, t k, l, q, f, s, m, a, x y, o, j, e, ѣ, b, ů, c and ɂ (glottal stop) 7M to IPA to Current English Table: 7M | IPA | Current English h | h | hat, [h]at u | ə | mud, m[u]d ŋ | ŋ | sing, si[ng] g | g | get, [g]et i | ɪ | sit, s[i]t n | n | nap, [n]ap v | v | very, [v]ery ʌ | ɑ | not, n[o]t ⋈ | ʒ | measure, mea[s]ure -------------------------------------------------------- d | d | dot, [d]ot w | w | wet, [w]et ε | i | feet, f[ee]t ћ | ð | smooth, smoo[th] z | z | zip, [z]ip r | ɹ | dirt, d[ir]t p | p | pet, [p]et t | t | tub, [t]ub -------------------------------------------------------- k | k | kite, [k]ite l | l | little, [l]itt[le]* q | u | loop, l[oo]p f | f | fig, [f]ig s | s | sit, [s]it m | m | man, [m]an a | æ | cat, c[a]t x | ʃ | dish, di[sh] -------------------------------------------------------- y | j | yellow, [y]ellow o | o̞ | note, n[o]te j | d͡ʒ | judge, [j]u[dg]e e | e | get, g[e]t ѣ | θ | tooth, too[th] b | b | bed, [b]ed ů | ʊ | put, p[u]t c | t͡ʃ | chat, [ch]at and ɂ (glottal stop) crc = church *The letter /L/ represents both a consonant form & a vowel form. Ten pure vowels [no diphthongs]: 7M(U I Λ E R Q A O ᖶ Ů u i ʌ ε r q a o e ů) IPA(ʌ ɪ ɑ i [ɹ] u æ o̞ e ʊ) This IPA nuttiness will clearly not work for everyday handwriting: ʊ, d͡ʒ, t͡ʃ, o̞, æ, ð, ʒ, ə. What is more, no human on Earth wants to write such characters.
A few of the new characters are not exactly what I want but were the closest I could find in the unicode system set. Diphthongs are written out. No glyph is used to represent more than one single indivisible sound except for the 'L'. E.g: 'leεk' = lake 'aqt' = out 'nuεt' = night 'buεt' = bite 'nʌεn' = nine
This Alphabet can be recited as four words or as individual letters names. The vowel names match the sounds associated with each letter. The consonant names use the nearest vowel. eg: hugh, ugh, ung, gih, i, in, vah, agh, aghzh
So I just checked out Ben Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet and it's a hot mess. Thankfully, he didn't beat me to the punch, well he did I guess, but he threw a wild punch. It does beg the question: Why have we not continued to revise and improve the alphabet for the last 400 years?
Hello Alex from Indonesia! So glad you left me a comment! Great question! I'll make a video about the different ways "ch" is pronounced in English. There are at least 3. So make sure you check back in!!! Thank you for watching!🙏
You explain in a very interesting manner, loving your videos
Thank you!!!❤️❤️
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Thank you!
Objections raised in a letter to Franklin were "All our etymologies would be lost, consequently we could not ascertain the meaning of many words; the distinction, too, between words of different meaning and similar sound would be useless, unless we living writers publish new editions. In short I believe we must let people spell on in their old way, and (as we find it easiest) do the same ourselves."
As far as the last objection goes, we have new technology that didn't exist in Franklin's day that allows us to convert books and large volumes of text from one system to another in real-time on PCs, tablets and phones.
The solution to homophones is to simply combine the meanings. Most of our words have multiple meanings anyway.
Etymologies are mostly unknown by most people anyway. That's what dictionaries are made for. This person who responded to Franklin was cut from the same cloth as the people who said, "We can't adopt the Metric System because we have millions of blueprints that were made using Imperial Units" and "cars will never replace good ole dependable horses!".
These people hold up a dollar to fret over a nickel.
BTW there's no need to force people who grew up using the current system (like me) to use 7M. We just start teaching it to the kids and providing them with digital versions of books that are converted. Also we roll out hardcover textbooks for the school kids that have been converted and reprinted using the new system.
BTW, ћer'z no nεd tu fors pεpl hq grq up yqziŋ ћu krrint sistum (luεk mε) tu yqz 7M. Wε just stʌrt tεciŋ it tq ћu kids and pruvʌεdiŋ ћem wiћ dijitl vr⋈unz uv bůks ћat ʌr kunvrtid. Also wε rol aqt tekstbůks for ћu skql kids ћat hav ben kunvrtid and rεprintid yqziŋ ћu nq sistum.
(7M Funetik Iŋglix)
'Aksudunt' - accident
'Ukrruns' - occurence
(7M Funetik Iŋglix)
I LOVE your comments!!! I am also perplexed by why we have not evolved to a writing system that makes more sense!! And I think that every time I encounter a child who is struggling to learn to read. And the extremely non-phonetic nature of the English alphabet makes their struggle exponentially greater, for no real reason!! Language is fluid, dynamic, organic, and it is hard to mandate changes. However, as you said, we now have technology to help us in ways that were unimaginable in days past. So, I am hopeful that the English alphabet will evolve!
Ben Franklin created an alphabet? I'll have to check that out because I invented one as well and I repurposed the 'c' to represent just the 'ch' sound ('crc' = church).
I am in awe of the fact that you created a phonetic alphabet! I would love to see it! Please share it!
@@Bakul-Soman Ok. Bear in mind that it's not intended to be used by phoneticists for Phonetic transcription. It is intended to replace our 26 character common use alphabet so that we can have an actual alphabet that matches the definition of 'alphabet'.
7M Phonetic Alphabet:
[uppercase]:
H, U, Ŋ, G, I, N, V, ᐱ, ⴵ
D, W, E, Ћ, Z, R, P, T
K, L, Q, F, S, M, A, X
Y, O, J, ᖶ,Ђ, B, Ů, C
and Ɂ (glottal stop)
[lower case]:
h, u, ŋ, g, i, n, v, ʌ, ⋈
d, w, ε, ћ, z, r, p, t
k, l, q, f, s, m, a, x
y, o, j, e, ѣ, b, ů, c
and ɂ (glottal stop)
7M to IPA to Current English Table:
7M | IPA | Current English
h | h | hat, [h]at
u | ə | mud, m[u]d
ŋ | ŋ | sing, si[ng]
g | g | get, [g]et
i | ɪ | sit, s[i]t
n | n | nap, [n]ap
v | v | very, [v]ery
ʌ | ɑ | not, n[o]t
⋈ | ʒ | measure, mea[s]ure
--------------------------------------------------------
d | d | dot, [d]ot
w | w | wet, [w]et
ε | i | feet, f[ee]t
ћ | ð | smooth, smoo[th]
z | z | zip, [z]ip
r | ɹ | dirt, d[ir]t
p | p | pet, [p]et
t | t | tub, [t]ub
--------------------------------------------------------
k | k | kite, [k]ite
l | l | little, [l]itt[le]*
q | u | loop, l[oo]p
f | f | fig, [f]ig
s | s | sit, [s]it
m | m | man, [m]an
a | æ | cat, c[a]t
x | ʃ | dish, di[sh]
--------------------------------------------------------
y | j | yellow, [y]ellow
o | o̞ | note, n[o]te
j | d͡ʒ | judge, [j]u[dg]e
e | e | get, g[e]t
ѣ | θ | tooth, too[th]
b | b | bed, [b]ed
ů | ʊ | put, p[u]t
c | t͡ʃ | chat, [ch]at
and ɂ (glottal stop)
crc = church
*The letter /L/ represents both a consonant form & a vowel form.
Ten pure vowels [no diphthongs]:
7M(U I Λ E R Q A O ᖶ Ů
u i ʌ ε r q a o e ů)
IPA(ʌ ɪ ɑ i [ɹ] u æ o̞ e ʊ)
This IPA nuttiness will clearly not work for everyday handwriting:
ʊ, d͡ʒ, t͡ʃ, o̞, æ, ð, ʒ, ə. What is more, no human on Earth wants to write such characters.
A few of the new characters are not exactly what I want but were the closest I could find in the unicode system set.
Diphthongs are written out. No glyph is used to represent more than one single indivisible sound except for the 'L'. E.g:
'leεk' = lake
'aqt' = out
'nuεt' = night
'buεt' = bite
'nʌεn' = nine
This Alphabet can be recited as four words or as individual letters names. The vowel names match the sounds associated with each letter. The consonant names use the nearest vowel. eg: hugh, ugh, ung, gih, i, in, vah, agh, aghzh
So I just checked out Ben Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet and it's a hot mess. Thankfully, he didn't beat me to the punch, well he did I guess, but he threw a wild punch. It does beg the question: Why have we not continued to revise and improve the alphabet for the last 400 years?
I remain hopeful that change will come!
Hi i am from indonesia How about 'ch'
Hello Alex from Indonesia! So glad you left me a comment! Great question! I'll make a video about the different ways "ch" is pronounced in English. There are at least 3. So make sure you check back in!!! Thank you for watching!🙏