Last wēcend ī woz at th Langwij Shō in London, mōstli telling pēpl abaut Esperanto at th stand ov th Esperanto Asōsiāshn ov Britn. (Ī had a lot ov fun, ov cors, getting tu tell pēpl olmōst evritting abaut mī hobi.)
Thr wur lots ov xibitrz propōzing veriuz wāz tu lurn veriuz langwijz, but wot stuc in mī mīnd woz th stand abaut Saaspel, a propōzl fr an olturnutiv English orttografi. Riforming ther speling sistm iz sumthing thē English shud hav dun a long tīm ago, az th pronunsiāshn ov a wurd jenrli haz no rilāshn tu its speling—wich mācs yuzing th langwij hardr fr lurnrz nd nātiv spēcrz alīc. (Th tradishnl speling mā hav bēn a purfect fit fr the langwij ov Shācsper'z tīm, but iz qīt ireluvnt nau.)
Saaspel (or Sāspel, az ritn in its olturnutiv form, with macronz tu indicāt long vaulz) standz fr "sām saund—sām speling", wich iz a priti gud sumri ov hau it wurcs. Wurdz r ritn az thā r pronaunsed, with litl (but stil sum) cnsidrāshn givn tu ther clasicl speling. A fyu uthr rūlz nd prinsiplz r:
A "long vaul", pronaunsd az in thē alfabet, is ritn "long", either "aa ee ii oo" or "ā ē ī ō", depending on yor tāst. "U" gets speshl trētmunt: "use" → "yuz", "boot" → "buut" or "būt".
The vaulz A, E, I nd O, when short, jenrli corispond tu th saund ritn with thōz letrz in mōst continentl European langwijz. Fr th sām rēzn, "automatic" bicumz "outomatic" but "sound" bicumz "saund". Agān, "U" gets speshl trētmunt nd iz yuzd fr th saund in "cut".
"K" iz not yuzd xept in prōpr nāmz. Th letr "C" olwāz stands fr th "K" saund, nevr fr "S".
Voisd "th", az in "this", is ritn "th", but voisles "th", az in "thin", bicumz "tt".
Oftn a consonunt iz inuf fr an intīr silabl: "silabl" (syllable), "endd" (ended), "problm" (problem).
Sē ther web sīt fr mor.
Thō īm not cnvinsd that Saaspel iz th purfect wā tu fix English speling, ī fēl that it iz a dēsnt implementāshn ov a gud īdē, so īl trī yuzing it nd sē if ī can māc sumwon hapi with it. (Īdēali mī efrt wud māc thē ntīr wurld adopt it, but if ī can giv at lēst won felō hyumn that worm fuzi fēling ov sumtting dun rīt, its tōtali wurtt it.)