http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/ truespel Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:37:17 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/547 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/547 I did an analysis of the rainbow passage. It's supposed to have phonemes in the same proportion as general text. Below, I use data from my analysis of Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:50:20 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/546 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/546 If one suggests a patchwork respell on English then there must be an overall design which one is headead toward completing the quest toward a consistent Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:36:00 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/545 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/545 It was a great speech http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/global/12iht-speech.html?ref=education Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+ see Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:14:15 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/544 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/544 Because truespel is phonetic, there would be no problem in converting song lyrics to a phonetic form. Anyone can do it. Just find the lyrics on the internet. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:50:52 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/543 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/543 Truespel spells ~jist for tradspel "gist". There are more google hits for "jist" than "gist" but maybe it's a word in another language. Or could it be Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:43:47 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/542 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/542 Here's a name for the phonetic spelling form, fuh-NET-ic. From wikipedia it's called "respelling". Not a very good name. Too general. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:54:21 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/541 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/541 A 1809 English Spelling Book by William Fordyce Mavor (digitized by Google) http://www.archive.org/details/englishspelling02mavogoog Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:36:14 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/540 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/540 I looked at the rule "I before e except after c when the sound is ee" (then it's e before i). It is basically true when you look at it from a word frequency Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:07:55 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/539 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/539 I did the analysis below using the Collins Cobuild database that counts word usage in print (truespel book 4): Examining the; "i" before "e" except after "c" Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:00:07 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/538 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/538 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+ see truespel.com Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:26:18 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/537 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/537 I do dump on the IPA, but I recognize that it has been a very good thing. It began the sorting of speech sounds and has sorted so many. Actually, it was Fri, 29 May 2009 02:11:29 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/536 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/536 Zipspel A while back I came up with the idea of zipspel. You use the auto correct function (MS Word) to zip words. For the word "the" you could zip it into Sat, 23 May 2009 20:22:49 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/535 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/535 To see how many homophones that are in general text, copy-paste text into the truespel text converter at truespel.com (click converter box on the main page). Sat, 23 May 2009 16:18:01 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/534 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/534 from an ESL forum posting: "Note that the "au" (awe) sound is not used by all Americans. They substitute the lax "o" (ah) sound. So you don't really need to Mon, 18 May 2009 20:06:13 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/533 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/533 qlippit speech. Click the play arrow. I think the vocal quality is a little rough. Perhaps a better mike would work. http://tinyurl.com/pf8fkl Tom