• Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> Nov 14 2007
• Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> Nov 14 2007

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

Gregor Richards Wrote:

 Bloody English, what's wrong with phonetic spelling anyway? ^^


That's because we're foolish enough to write it in a Roman script. I'd b
perfectly happy writing everything in IPA.

Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> writes:

Robert Fraser wrote:
 Gregor Richards Wrote:
 
 Bloody English, what's wrong with phonetic spelling anyway? ^^


 That's because we're foolish enough to write it in a Roman script. I'd b
perfectly happy writing everything in IPA.


That way lies madness! We don't need IPA, we just need a sane script 
that's robust to past and future sound changes in English. Like Cyrillic 
is for Russian.