zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) (04/05/85)
Sorry to spoil everyone's fun, and this won't entirely, but someone has
already come up with a way to do phonemic spelling, in English, in ASCII.
What you have not been using, as far as I can tell, is the capital letters.
The name of the pre-existing ASCII phonemic spelling is Klattese, for a guy
named Klatt, who had to invent it to do computerized data entry for his
thesis at (I seem to remember) MIT, some time ago, which see for the exact
reference. I don't know how many linguists know about it, but some certainly
do, because it was what I was advised to use to solve this problem. It uses
upper and lower case letters, and two symbols. It isn't very exact, but for
most purposes it will do, and it would certainly make a good jumping-off
point for a proper phonetic system. It goes something like what follows. My
apologies to Klatt and anyone else who might be offended for any omissions
or mistakes.
t as in the beginning of tag
T as in the beginning of thin
d as in the beginning of dog
D as in the beginning of the
f as in the beginning of frabjous
r as in the beginning of ring-tailed pheasant
p as in the baginning of preposterous
v as in the beginning of varicose
w as in the beginning of wilderness
y as in the beginning of Yangtze
s as in the beginning of sap-sucker
S as in the beginning of shimmering
g as in the beginning of Gandalf
G as in the end of sprong
h as in the beginning of halibut
j as in the beginning of jamboree
k as in the beginning of calamitous
l as in the beginning of legend
z as in the beginning of Zarasthustra
Z as in the middle of pleasure
b as in the beginning of bedlam
n as in the beginning of nomological
m as in the beginning of mannequin
C as in the beginning of Chaplinesque
a as in the vowel in mod
c as in the vowel in Maude
e as in the vowel in maid
i as in the vowel in mead
o as in the vowel in mode
u as in the vowel in mood
x as in the vowel in the
@ as in the vowel in mad
^ as in the vowel in mud
W as in the vowel in OW!
Y as in the vowel in my
U as in the vowel in should
I as in the vowel in mid
O as in the vowel in boy
E as in the vowel in bed
-Elizabeth D. Zwicky