Let me give you this american example:
You are driving in your car and you see a sign that says
"drive thru"
Thru is equivalent to through, but also sounds like threw,
in other words, heterographic homonyms, as you called
them...
But here's the rub: You know from the context that thru in
that sense means through. Why should we make shavian any
more complex than roman spellings?
--Star
--- paul vandenbrink <pvandenbrink@...> wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> Has any done any work to minimize homonyms in the Shaw
> Alphabet?
> It came up in Shaw Spelling of (to/too/two).
> And it comes ups in a lot of other common English words.
> (knight,
> night, knot, not, won, one)
> The to's can be spelled differently only because Tot is
> an
> abbreviation for "to", and "two" can be written as 2.
> Normally, there is no differentiation unless the one of
> the homonyms
> is a name and the namer dot comes into play.
> I am thinking, that we might want to introduce another
> symbol, to
> indicate the Shaw word is the least common of two or more
> homonyms,
> or possibly a foreign word altogether with the same
> pronunciation as
> a common English word. For sake of argument, let's use
> the asterisk.
> So the word knight in Shaw letters would be preceded with
> an *.
> I know that for good Shaw writing, many people already
> try to use a
> less confusing synonym rather than the least common
> member of a
> homonym pair, but sometimes it is difficult to find a
> good synonym.
> Anybody thinking along the same lines?
>
> Regards, Paul V.
>
> P.S. Can we get rid of the Roman convention of spelling
> out all
> numbers less than 13, and just use numbers (digits)
> whenever?
> I think this convention existed simply because lower case
> L and 1
> were not always easily distinguished (No differentiation
> in Roman
> Letters and Digits)
>
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>
> --- In shavian@y..., Paul Gershon Vandenbrink
> <pvandenbrink@s...>
> wrote:
> > Hi Steve
> > When I transliterate all these word pairs into the
> Shavian
> Alphabet,
> > they all have the same spelling with the exception of
> tier/tear.
> > I would spell tear as Tot Ear
> > and tier as Tot Eat Array
> > All the other pairs sound the same and since Shavian is
> phonetic,
> homonyms
> > of any kind come out the same.
> >
> > Regards, Paul V.
> > _______________Regard _______________________
> > At 08:41 PM 10/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Shavians,
> > >
> > >How do you handle heterographic homophones
> > >in Shavian?
> > >
> > >Do you do it any differently than any other
> > >phonemic notation?
> > >
> > >TO EN Spanglish ALC
> > >---------- ---- --------- ------
> > >tide/tied = tYd, taid tied
> > >tear/tier = tEr, tier teer
> > >tenner/tenor = tenar, tenner, tener
> > >worn/warn worn worn worn
> > >war/wore wor wor wor
> > >wire wYr wair wier
> > >choir/aquire kwYr kwair akwair kwier/aqier
> > >wood/would wvd wvd wuud
> > >know/no nO no kno/no
> > >
> > >homographic heterophones
> > >wound wound/wuund
> > >
> > >REF:
> > >http://www.unifon.org/homophones.html
> > >JSSS: 3 articles on heterographs by Chris Upward
> > >http://www.spellingsociety.org
> > >
> > >Steve
> > >
> > >
> > >
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