>Why Invent a New Form of Writing?
>English is a somewhat eclectic language and its spelling shows
the traces of its borrowings from various other languages and
cultures over the last 1000 years or more. However, this has
left its spelling something of a 'hodge-podge', with multiple
spellings for a given sound, and several pronunciations
possible for a given spelling (e.g. to 'read', and to be
'read', or the infamous 'ough').
What you're attempting has been attempted before in different
variations. If you can find a copy of "The Conversion of
Scripts", by Hans Wellisch (pub. 1978, if I recall), you might
be interested to learn some of the history and of some of the
successes and failures.
Peter
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