Mastodawn

I had an idea for a style of poetry that is (hopefully) kind of unique to Shavian.

Since so many of the letters become other letters when rotated, you just keep matching a word with its rotated pair in each line. And, since there's usually a phonetic relationship between those letters, it kind of sounds "right" somehow too.

#shavian @[email protected] #englishspellingreform #poetry

Remy Rose Feb 4

I'm transliterating one of Chuck Tingle's books into Shavian.

Decided to take a break halfway through the second chapter to do the cover. There doesn't seem to be a textless version floating around, so please forgive my terrible editing lol.

Mostly I'm going one paragraph at a time, using Dechifro's transliteration tool, reading for errors/stylistic changes, fixing it up, and copying it into the epub.

#shavian #chucktingle @[email protected] #englishspellingreform #books

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Tim Mills Jan 31

@samuelpepys "Ashamed"? Really? 🙄 The only thing to be ashamed of here is that our writing system is so divorced from the language, yet we blame the people and not the broken system! #EnglishSpellingReform #EnglishSpellingReformNow

Tim Mills Jan 30

So, most varieties of English have around 40 distinctive sounds (phonemes). That is substantially more than the number of letters we typically use. So, new poll: if you were to design a spelling reform, how would you deal with that difference? #EnglishSpellingReform

Add new letters (æðəŋθ...)

21.4%

Put diacritics on existing letters (àçéïô...)

35.7%

Use letter combinations (ch, ae, dh, ...)

35.7%

Other (please describe!)

7.1%

Poll ended at Feb 2 at 9:52pm.

Remy Rose Jan 30

𐑥𐑹 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑥𐑰𐑥𐑟 𐑒𐑳𐑥𐑦𐑙 𐑨𐑑 𐑿!

#shavian #englishspellingreform #stargate #memes @[email protected]

Remy Rose Jan 15

·𐑖𐑱𐑚𐑾𐑯 𐑥𐑰𐑥𐑦𐑙 𐑦𐑯𐑑𐑧𐑯𐑕𐑦𐑓𐑲𐑟!

#Shavian #English #englishspellingreform @[email protected]

Remy Rose Jan 13

I made myself a tiny cheatsheet for learning Shavian, in Inkscape.

It's loosely based on one I found in the Shavian subreddit, except (probably) much worse than that one. I just really wanted something in a smaller size, for easily carrying around. These are designed for 2in×3.5in double-sided business cards. I have .SVGs too but I dunno where to post those.

@[email protected] #Shavian #English #language #spelling #englishspellingreform