We can’t even get people to spell correctly with the letters we have.
Capitalization, and punctuation are being lost because it’s slightly inconvenient on a phone keyboard to include them. Anything outside of lowercase a-z is too hard now. Good luck getting anyone to shift the keyboard to find other characters.
I down with æ, but me and all my homies hate ø because it’s so negative looking, like, why can’t we enter there, ø, who made you the alphabetic gatekeeper?
I nominate ů instead. Look at that angelic little halo. But I’d accept ű as a metal af alternative \m/ little ű
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?
See the løveli lakes
The wonderful telephøne system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic møøse
Why did I read this in the Swedish Chef’s accent?
A Møøse once bit my sister …
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink”.
Wait, the “o” in “holiday”, “lovely” sound different, so which is it?
Do they sound different in a Swedish accent?
𐑲 𐑨𐑥 𐑨𐑕𐑒𐑦𐑙 𐑿 𐑑 𐑿𐑟 𐑭𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑨𐑒𐑖𐑩𐑤𐑰 𐑥𐑱𐑒𐑕 𐑕𐑧𐑯𐑕 𐑓𐑸 𐑦𐑙𐑜𐑤𐑦𐑖.
“æ” was used in Old English to write the exact sound that “a” represents in most Americans’ pronunciation of the word “cat”, with “a” representing a distinct vowel. Old English had a few other fun letters - a bunch of people have heard of “þ” (thorn) but there was also “ƿ” (wynn) which had a sound value like “w” in modern English.
I don’t like that O thing because I write 0’s with the line through it
As a Norwegian, I find it annoying that they “stole” Ø for that purpose. I put a backslash through my zeros instead, so it looks different. I usually pick a coding font with dotted zeros for the same reason.
As a former math major, it annoys me because 0 and Ø are different concepts.
Hopefully with no apostrophe after them. Those things are endangered, you know.
Nø.
I can þink of anoðer couple candidates.
Such good letters. I could never digest the fact that th can sound so different (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ
Tho Đ/đ, Ŧ/ŧ are also cool, more historically accurate(thorn and eth were never as clean cut as we like to think) and fit the vibe of the english alphabet better.
You could start wið þ and ð: ðey look cool AND have clear use-cases
There are too many letters already, there’s nothing c can do that k or s can’t.
Q is also entirely useless.
Sheese? Kheese?
I’m in favor of replacing ch with just c, so you’d have a kappakuolo and ceese sandwic. That way, it isn’t redundant and we have fewer special cases.
Also, “x” is usually redundant with “ks”, so use it for what’s currently “sh” to eliminate another redundancy and another special case.
Add back the thorn and eth for “th” and use “f” instead of “ph” and consonants are actually pretty consistent.
Hard milk
Tsheese
Tsiis
That’s how it’s spelled in Frisian
I would say there are not enough letters. We have about 12-14 vowel monopthongs, but only 6 letters to represent vowels. No wonder everything’s a fucking mess! And that’s without even getting to diphthongs.
Can I get a §houtout to whatever you call this thing?
That’s the section symbol.
Oh, you mean the §ection §ymbol? I first saw it used in The Sims for §imoleans.
Pretty sure I did too!
¿In this era of change, what are you waiting for? ¡I’m once again asking you to add starting exclamation and question marks to English to help disambiguate sentences and provide early cues to mood and voice!
All hail the THORN Þ
