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/
_______________________________________________
Mt-list mailing list
