eze ke eqglix - introduction

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EzE kE eqgLix y Stephen Watson (2011.11)[email protected]

1. English sounds are distilled down to a minimum for

ease of simplicity for both struggling native speakers andaspiring students of English worldwide.2. Letters correspond 1:1 to unique sounds, except in the

case of^ (hall) and o (hot) which represent the samesound, but are kept as 2 separate sounds because of theirrespective popularities in traditional spelling. We can callthem twins.

3. Although capital letters and a few numbers are used, allletters are considered as being in a single case. Manyalphabets survive without having upper and lower case

letters: Korean, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, etc. Since thisscript is intended to be an auxiliary script to English andone that is used more to accelerate initial entry into thelanguage, such emphasis that capitalization gives maynot be required.

4. No diacritics or accents are used, since they are notreadily or easily added using keyboard symbols (except insome word processors or with plug-ins)5. Vowels (12 including 1 pair of twins)

a. long vowels: capitalized vowel letters say their own

name, except drop the y sound from U and justcall it oo (as in boot)

A (day) E (meet) I (hi) O (go) U (blue, flu)b. short vowels:

a (cat) e (net) i (it) o (hot) u (up)c. two more:

^ (hall, daughter) 3 o r : (sometimes the tensed schwa as in mother

muT3r muT :r but also sometimes relaxed as in t3rn,

c3rve, b3k or t:rn, c:rve, b:k)6. Consonantsa. In the chart, most of the consonants are paired into

voiced and voiceless pairs, indicating that they areformed the same way with tongue, teeth, etc butthat the shaded one has voice while the unshadedone has no voice

b. This knowledge of voiced and unvoiced consonantswill be useful when the transition is made to


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plurals formed with s or es but said withdifferent sounds (sand zand uz)

c. b baby p paper d daddy t tot g good k kitej ob, George c chat m mum n nun L label r red,more

d. f fine v vote s sound z zoo x shine, wish 7 Asia8 thin, with T they, father h hello w wind y yesq song, finger

7. Capital Lis used rather than lower case lsince in sans-

serif font lowercase l looks too much like the number 1;

for th, 8 is used since it resembles the IPA and the

dominant looking T is used for the voiced -th; x is used asit is in Chinese pinyin for shas in xie xie ni; 7 looks in

part like a capital J (mirror image?) and also in part like a

capital Zso it is used for the zhsound found in Asia; q

is used for -ngsince it partly resembles the IPA

8. Underlining can be used to show the stressed syllable

und3rLIniq kan bE yUzd tU xO Tu strest siLabL.

9. Sliding into traditional spelling

a. s and es replaces z in plurals for words withvoiced consonants at the end

b. Yules 35 common words can be introduced intraditional spelling over a short time

c. long vowel + silent e (hope, cope, note, vote, wrote,bone, node, mode, drove, rove, dove)

d. other vowel + silent e at end (love, dove, glove,shove, move, prove, etc)

e. double vowels making O sound boat, coat, oat,road, toad, foam,

f. other combinations making O sound show, know,glow, grow, snow, crow, hoe, roe,

g. double vowels making E sound sea, meat, neat,wheat, beat, seat, heat, see, breeze, feet, beet, meet,keep, sheet, sweet, sleet, greet, fleet, knee,

h. double vowels making U sound mood, food, room,soon, fool, cool, blue, clue, sue, cue, shoe,

i. other 2-letter combinations making U sound or Usound plus more pew, new, stew, grew, knew, few,threw, euphony, euphemism,


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j. double vowels making 3 sound good, hood, look,

shook, took, brook,k. double vowels making u sound blood,l. double consonants th,

m. silent consonants climb, island, throw,n. consonants stealing sounds from others cough,

enough, graph, laugh, plough, nation, station,o. flipflop words: photograph, photography,p. phase out y as glide before u in musical uselessq. etc etc etc

10.Reform after adequate research On the spelling reformfront, steps can be taken to popularize the English pinyinas an intermediary to traditional spelling, but also toestablish gradual shift to a more efficient alphabet. The

Korean King Sejong established a royal commission ofscholars to study the sounds of Korean language and in1446 they came forth with the hangulalphabet, calledHun Min Jong Um, Accurate Sounds to Educate thePeople. But it took until somewhere into the 20th centurybefore the system was fully adopted by the population atlarge. Would not English-speaking countries around theworld benefit from a simple representation of the basicsounds of English in a 1-letter 1-sound alphabet? Andwould not its quick implementation set minds at ease and

enable learner to quickly access the spoken words ofEnglish?

11. Possible future use ofEzE kE in a pinyin-like keyboard

shorthand for English?: Speakers and writers ofMandarin Chinese use an abbreviated form of theiranglo-spelled pinyinon the keyboard. Often, a fewkeystrokes will give them the Chinese hanzicharacter fora word that would require perhaps twice or three timesas many key strokes as it takes to type the English word.Similarly, would English fare well with this kind of

shorthand keyboard pinyin? Imagine typing in nn andhaving a numbered list of words having those consonantsonly as in nun, nine, inane, none, nano, noon, anon, in anumbered list and one selects by typing the number. (Ithink thats how it works!) Thus in 3 strokes I can havethe word inanewhich would otherwise take 5 strokes orthe word nonewhich would otherwise take 4 strokes.

Tnk would give think, thank. rm would give Rome,

room, rum, rim, roamand one selects from the list

accordingly. mnt would pop up a list of minute, meant,


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mint. Just as the Chinese remember the quick accesspinyin key strokes to get their complex characters, so toEnglish could use a shortened, phonetic alphabet toquickly access long words. Alrdy, shrtnd frms r usd in txt

msgs.12. Some words with their EzE kE equivalents

leave Lev hologram hoLOgra

m

databas

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dAtabAs

introduc

tion

intrOduk

xen

person

al

p3rson:L music

al

myUzik

uL

architec

ture

^rkitekc3r

photogra

phy

fOtogra

fE

intangi

bleintan ib

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possible p^sibL ustice justis bookca

se

b:kkAs

potential pOtencuL

governme

nt

gov3rn

ment

network netw:r

k

13. A sample poem follows: hapE I am written by

stedawa.


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hapE I am (soq bysted^w^)hapE bI dA, hapE bI nItif yU just k^L mE hapEI wiL bE ^LrIt

hapE wiT mE, hapE wiT yUif wE mAk Ec oT3r hapEwEL bE az g3d az nU

hapE wen wE sit, hapE wen we w^khapE evrE tIm wE mEttUgeT3r and t^k

hapE wiT him, hapE wiT h3rhapE wiT evrEwun I mEt uv Tat Im x3r

hapE in Tu mOrniq, haPE ^L dAhapE in Tu nIt tImwen Tu sun gOz awA

hapE bI Tu mUn, hapE bI Tu sunhapE wen I w^khapE wen I run

hapE wen it rAnz, hapE wen it sizLzhapE wen its snOE and kOLdand wen its in Tu midL


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Easy Keyboard EnglishThe goal of this system is to teach children

the sounds of English using a simplealphabet that uses keyboard symbols, the

same way that Chinese children use ABC

pinyin to say Chinese sounds.

After they learn to speak many words, they

can then learn the correct spelling, the same

way that Chinese children continue on tolearn hanzi.

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Jaerang Lee (translation into Korean)

eze ke eqglix - introduction

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