ByteCool Software
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:15:02 -0700
More ideas are at https://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/ideas . Phonetics-Enhanced English (PEE) - The computer can add non-intrusive diacritical marks (e.g. the mark in รก) above normal English words to better reflect their pronunciations. Unlike radical spelling reform proposals, a word's original literal form is always preserved. Unlike annotating words with their IPA forms above, diacritical marks are closely integrated with letters so a learner can "read once and learn both the literal and the phonetic form." In inputting English, the learner still uses the original literal form only. Orthography-Enhanced English (OEE) - Sometimes spelling a word based on its pronunciation can be hard, even for native speakers. For example, is it Lawrence or Lawrance? Is it porridge or porrige? We can slightly change a word's visual form to help recall its correct spelling. For example, when the computer displays a word that has the -ance suffix (e.g. instance), it can lower the letter a to some degree, just like Intel has a trademark "intel" with a lowered e. Such a new visual form can help people recall that the unclear letter in inst?nce is a because a is always lowered in -ance while e is never lowered in -ence. Similarly we can let the computer display porridge in a new form by adding an arc (Unicode U+035C) below dg to indicate this sound corresponds to two letters instead of one. Regards, Yao Ziyuan _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/
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