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TRUESPEL - The First English based Worldwide Standard Spelling
Comparing the time required to learn truespel to the traditional writing system
is like comparing the speed of a hare to a tortoise. Learn to spell as fast as a rabbit!Truespel is a notation for phonemic writing based on English common usage of roman characters. Truespel is the world's first standard phonetic spelling that marks stress by doubling consonants before a stressed vowel.
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Truespel could be used as a pronunciation guide in a dictionary. Except for the special characters for unstressed sounds such as schwa, there is normally a one-to-one correspondence between Truespel and the way words are spelled in the dictionary's pronunciation guide. In place of characters for unstressed sounds, Truespel uses a double consonant convention to mark primary stress other than in the first syllable. Truespel takes the next step and asks, "Why not use phonemic spelling for communication?"
After two weeks of practice, students can learn to spell better in a phonemic system than they can in the traditional English writing system. The level of mastery attained in two weeks a phonemic writing system the equivalent to ten years with the traditional system.LERN TUE SPEL FAST [2 weeks vs. 10 years] After two weeks of practice, students can spell better in a phonemic system than they can in the traditional writing system after ten years of practice. Learn 40 phonograms and you can spell any word as you pronounce it. When it comes to learning speed, it is like comparing the speed of a tortoise [the traditional system] to the speed of a hare [phonemic Truespel].Wouldn't you prefer to spell tortoise the way it is pronounced? You can with Truespel: TORTUS. Since there are no double consonants before the second vowel, stress on the first syllable.
The dictionary will tell you that the word is pronounced /'t
r-t's/, which is fine if you can read IPA. Traditional spelling gets the first syllable correct. The spelling of the second syllable seems to rhyme with TOYS. Whatever the pronunciation of -TOISE, few would guess /t's/.
Truespel is an alternative to the International Phonetic Alphabet. It contains the same information as the phonetic spelling /'t
Like the IPA, Truespel can be used to transcribe a wide variety of dialects and languages in addition to standard English. It could be used on foreign language menus, for example, to make the pronunciation of the dish transparent. Unlike IPA, no special characters or special fonts would be required and ordinary people could figure out the pronunciation without consulting a key.
Truespel is closer to traditional English spelling than IPA. This makes it easier to learn for old and young alike. For the young, it provides [1] a way to quickly achieve literacy in a consistent orthography and [2] a relatively easy reading transition to the more inconsistent and chaotic traditional spelling. For the old, it provides a consistent spelling system which clearly shows pronunciation and stress.
Learning Truespel will not necessarily improve your ability to spell in the traditional system. It will train your ear. To the extent that the traditional system is phonemic and logical, this will help. However, the only real solution to the problem of spelling is to respell half of the words in the dictionary.
Unlike IPA, most Truespel phonograms are based on a frequently used traditional English spelling pattern. Although some words written in Truespel may first appear to be a little odd, Truespel can still be read without a key and quickly mastered by those already literate in the traditional orthography. In a study conducted by a University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor, 5 minutes were deemed a sufficient amount of time for grad students to become familiar with the Truespel code.
Writing in Truespel is basically spelling the way you speak. Truespel provides a consistent way of writing dialects far superior to the pseudo dialect writing in traditional English [See Mark Twain]. Your pronunciation of a word or phrase can be transcribed in Truespel. In Texas, you might have "aegz for brekfus and oen daugz and cats."
Phonemic writing is not difficult but would take longer than 5 minutes. With a couple of weeks practice, however, most English speakers could write in Truespel. In fact, after a few weeks, they would be able to spell better in Truespel than in the erratic traditional orthography. Truespel is a "spell as you speak" system which means that there would be no standardized spelling. Spelling would be regional as it is in Norway. Those speaking different dialects of English would spell some words differently.
English has 35 simple sounds. and Counting blends, diphthongs, and three unstressed vowels, there are about 43 sounds in the language. Truespel uses 40 phonograms. All 40 are present in the following story:
Latin-1 More Truespel marks /L / with [u] , except for [er], merges /L / and /'/ sof' = soefu 'bLt =ubbut
Traditional Orthography That quick beige fox jumped in the air over each thin dog.
Look out, I shout, for he's foiled you again.That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thu air oever eech thhin daug. Look out, ie shout, for heez foild yue uggen. IPA commonly used in dictionaries
for the pronunciation guideðæt kwik bei3 fa:ks tZLmpt in ð' e'r ouv'r i:tò qin d
luk aut ai òaut fThaet quick beizh fox jampd in the eir owver iech thhin dog. Lwk aut, ai shaut, for hiez foild yu agen. Spanglish also shows stress with double vowels, double consonants after short stressed vowels, and schwa. sofa, abutt. The goals of the two notations is somewhat different. Truespel is a reform notation. Spanglish is a proposed initial teaching system and pronunciation guide. All letters are pronounced in Spanglish. They are pronounced according to the Saxon alphabet. Truespel uses silent letters as markers. [er] is not the pronunciation of e followed by the pronunciation of r, it is a unique 2-letter symbol or phonogram..
Truespel is always phonemic and always shows stress. Odd looking combinations of sound signs are embraced because they are consistent. Unlike ALC fonetic, Truespel does not make concessions to look more like the traditional system.
Both systems shown above are built on one of the traditional spelling patterns. The problem with the traditional approach is that it uses at least four different spelling patterns including using the same spelling pattern for different sounds: [now] could either rhyme with row and know or rhyme with cow and how. In Truespel [ow] cannot be interpreted because some letters and some letter combinations are not defined. The combinations [no] or [now] have no meaning in the Truespel system.
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"That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thu air oever eech thhin daug. Look out, ie shout, for heez foild yue uggen."
Truespel does not use [o] to indicate a simple sound because in TO [the traditional orthography] [o] is assigned to three different sounds: ah, awe, and owe. [Truespel aa, au, oe]
In American English, aa [ah] can be used for many words containing [o] such as Tom [Taam]. When the sound is [awe] as in cost. The word is truespelled caust. When the sound is [owe] as in coast, it is truespelled coest.
IPA uses the turned c for [awe] and the diphthong ou or 'u for [owe]. These symbols are often missing from the keyboard unless a special font is installed. Special fonts may be fine for printed material, but are less than ideal for most electronic documents. To cope with this problem special ASCII based IPAs such as SAMPA have been developed. Truespel uses only keyboard characters.
The Truespel Alfubet Key
40 phonograms: 17 [to 20] vowels - 23 consonants
An alphabet is a grapheme-phoneme or symbol-sound correspondence table: A collection of sound signs linking visible marks to speech soundsTruespel has a symbol for just about every phoneme in English. Because Truespel shows stress, 40 symbols can mark 43 sounds. Most systems have problems with schwa, schwer, and schwi, Truespel doesn't. They are just the unstressed versions of u/i, er, and ee.
In the chart, short vowels come before the long vowels [yellow]. R combinations [air, er, or ]are listed last. As in IPA, yue [you] is not listed as a phoneme but as a combination of a consonant Y plus /ue/. The two phonograms are unrepresented: ng and the British short [o] - see listing
Unused letters: [ x, q ]. o and c are not used except in digraphs [oe, oi, ou,or, ch] There are two sounds in [surfer] and Truespel can accurately represent both of them: They are spelled the same but the stress conventions makes it possible to distinguish them. Since there are no double consonants in surfer, the stress must be regular - on the first syllable as in \ser-fer\. [impersonal] is stressed on the 2nd vowel \imppersunul\ . The double p marks the location of the irregular stress. IPA would transcribe this word as /im 'p3:s'n 'l/
Missing pure vowel: /n-tail/ as in fingger [finger]. Truespel chose not to mark this phoneme because it rarely distinguishes the meaning of two similar letter strings. singer /siqer/ and finger /fiqger/ are not pronounced the same but failing to do so does not obscure the intent of the speaker. The [q] is available if for some reason there was a need to make the distinction. Truespelled they are seen-ger and feen-ger.
Traditional Orthography The other herder was murdered Ortthaagrafee
Thu uther herder wuz merderd Spanglish Orthografy Tha athr hrrdr waz mrrdrd
Traditional Orthography He owed her more for the mower Hee oed her mor for thu moewer Spanglish Orthografy Hi owd hr mor for tha mowr Truespel is a spell as you speak system and does not necessarily follow the dictionary pronunciation guide. [oo], the sound in wool, is often substituted where the dictionary calls for a schwa: byuetifool. [ee] is often substituted for the [short I] as in seeng [sing] and the schwi in veree [very]. Since ng is not a phoneme in Truespel, bangk [bang+k] is spelled bank [ban+k] and there is not distinction in the spelling of Seengerand feenger.
Paper & pencil Exercise: Test your mastery of Truespel 1. Spell the key words in the alphabet table in Truespel: at, aep, autoe, r..., elb.., ...
2. Spell the following sentences in Truespel [do not read the orange print until you finish]
Check your truespellings against the first orange line or cut and paste into the on-lineAre you using paper and pencil to write out your answers before checking?
Aar yue yuezeeng paeper and pensil tue riet out yur anserz beeffor chekeeng?
Aar yu yusing peipr aend pensil tu wrait aut yur aens'rz bifor cheking?Who says I can't spell right? Here is the proof.
Hue sez ie kant spel riet? Heer iz thu pruef.
Hu sez ai cant spel rait? Hir izz tha pruf.Mares of this hue are very rare.
Mairz uv this hyue aar vairee rair.
Meirz [Mearz] av thiss hyu aar very reir [rear]. -spanglishAll around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasle.
Aul urround thu mulbairee boosh thu munkee chaesd thu weezool
Ol around tha malbery bwsh tha manky cheisd the wizl. -spanglishHer upper class date was a fake. Like many, he had no money.
Hur uper clas daet wuz u faek. Liek menee, hee had noe munee.
Hr uppr claes deit waz a feik. Laik meny hi haed no many.She sells sea shells down by the sea shore
Shee selz see shelz doun bie thu see shor
Shi selz si shelz daun bai tha si shorSpanglish is an ASCII version of IPA. It can be written in keyboard characters, read without a key, and does not look too bad in print.
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Truespel Rules1. Silent "e" moves from the end of the word to the right of the vowel it makes long (plate = plaet). Therefore, the long vowels are spelled ae, ee, ie, oe, ue. (as in sundae, see, pie, toe, true). These are traditional spelling patterns associated with the long vowels in English. The difference is that Truespel always uses this spelling to reference the sound. The traditional orthography uses dozens of spellings to reference the same sound. Notations, such as Truespel, that spell a particular sound one and only one way are called phonemic or alphabetic.Below are the 17 vowels and 23 consonants of Truespel for English.. The consonants are the same as TO but for "zh" and "thh." The vowels require the most standardization. The words below representing the vowel sounds spelled correctly both in TO and truespel.2. Voiced "th" is spelled "th" (that), but unvoiced "th" is spelled "thh" (thhin).
3. "G" is always hard. "Y" is always a consonant. very=veree not very. system=sistem not system.
4. "X," "Q," and "C (alone)" are not needed and can be used for foreign sounds.
5. An apostrophe (’) indicates a glottal (glo’le) stop.
6. The first syllable in a word is the default accented syllable. If there are no double consonants in a word, the stress is on the first syllable. Accent or stress shifts to the syllable after a double consonant (example, desert and dessert). In digraphs with [h] such as "sh" "ch" "zh" "th" and "thh" the first letter in the digraph rather than the [h] is doubled. [ssh...] [more examples]
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oddities: freeer, sur/ser [sir], muther, poeet, moeer [mower], ubbout, roez uv roezuz.
IPA laung voulz short vaulz kumbbiend ei ae -sundae a - at aa - baa, are air - hair, pair i: ee - eel, glee e - edge, yes er - other eer - ear, fear ai ie - pie, siet i - it, sit or - for, more ier - ire, fire ou / 'u oe - toe aa - cot=caat oi - oil, boi ou -out, our, cow u: ue - blue, yue u - up oo - hook au - auto, cost 23 kaansunints= b, d, f, g (hard), h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t , v, w, y, z, zh, sh, ch, th, thh
40 phonemes 17 vowels + 23 consonants [full alphabet]
In tabular form, Truespel looks about like ALC Fonetic. ALC keeps the o for [ah] and uses ue for [yue]. The unique aspect of TS is the use of double consonants to mark stress: dubool kaansunint leed u stresd silubool. Fer instints thu TO werdz "desert" and "dessert". In truespel theez wood bee speld dezert and dizzert. [CKS: desrt, dizert]. Thair iz noe reezin naat tue maek good yues uv dubool kaansunints. Stres shood bee indikaetid in enee nue speleeng. -Taam 5/99
Although based on the same principles, passages written in TS and Fonetic look quite different. Because it uses double consonants to mark stress, a passage written in Truespel will be about 10% longer than one written in ALC fonetic. Passages in TO (traditional orthography) can be converted to Truespel using the Automated Spelling Converter:
The vowel after a double consonant is stressed: about = ubbout, shows stress on 2nd syllable.
Chekt Free Difthongs w.schwa Short-chkt Extended Difthongs R-endings a aa ie aar, ier at, aks (ax) paalm (palm) iez (eyes) ar (are) ier (ire) e er ae air elboe elbow her (her)* aes (ace) air (air) i ee i oi eer it, in eest (east) oil, boi eer (ear) aa au oe or aax caat (ox, cot) caut (caught) oet (oat) mor (more) oo ue yue yuer hook, good luet (lute) yue (you) pyuer (pure) u a e a i o ow our up, but uggoe (ago) out (out) our (our)
*er merges /3:/ and /'r/. IPA: '=shwa, ò =sh, j =y h =ng, 3=Zh
compared to alternate notations
The notations in the first row are phonemic which means that they change over 60% of the spellings in English. The notations in the 2nd row allow two spellings of a sound. They look more traditional but are also more ambiguous. Truespel is more consistent than ALC fonetic which uses ar for aar, e and y for ee, c for k, and s for all plural endings rather than s and z, ...
Sample text shows stress
Speleeng reformers tipiklee waant tue riet withh u dikshunairee prununseeyyaeshun gied rather than truddishunool Eenglish speleeng. Thae waant thu speleeng sistim tue bee neerlee 100% alfubbetikool instted uv 40%. Eenglish speleeng iz haard bikkuz thair aar tue menee orthoegrraphic aapshins. source
( IPA broad romic)
speling rifo rm
niUnifOn II compact
SpeliN riformRz tipikLE wqnt tu rIt wiT c dikScnerE prcnxnsEAScn gId raDcr Dan trcdiScncl ENgliS speliN. DA wqnt Dc speliN sistM tu bE nirlE 100% alfcbetikcl insted cv 40%. ENgliS speliN iz hqrd bikoz Der qr sO menE orTcgrafik opScnz.
Saxon Systematic shows stress
Spelling reformerz tipickly waant tu rait with a dickshanerry pranunncieshan gaid raether thann tradisshanal English spelling. They waant the spelling sisstam tu bi nirly 100% aelfabettic instedd ov 40%. English spelling iz haard becoz therr aar tu menny orthograffic opshans
Another 70% solution
Spelling reformers tipicly want tu ryt with a dictionary pronunciation gide rather than traditional English spelling. Thay want the spelling sistem tu be neerly 100% alfabetical insted of 40%. English spelling is hard becauz thair ar tu menny orthografic options.
[20 exceptions to the rule]
Speling reformers tipicaly wont to riet with a dicshunairy pronunsiaeshun gied rather than tradishunal English speling. Thay wont the speling sistem to be neerly 100% alfabetical insted of 40%. English speling is hard becauz thair ar too meny orthografic opshuns
Truespel is more consistent than ALC fonetic which uses ar for aar, e and y for ee, c for k, and s for all plural endings rather than s and z, ... In English, stress is normally on the root syllable which would be the first syllable in two syllable words unless the first syllable was a prefix such a- or un-. the suffix -er is always unstressed. Words borrowed from Greek, Latin and French do not have this consistency. Leman [as in Lak Leman] would be pronounced "lemon" in English but "ley-maahn" in French. MORE SAMPLES
Benifits
Nou at last thair iz u wae uv tranzlaeteeng enee langwij intue an Eenglish-baesd proennunsibool form. Truespel iz thu ferst and oenlee standerd interprettaeshinool speleeng in egzzistints tuddae that yueziz naan-speshool keez or keebordz. Wen ritin in Truespel, langwijiz kan bee red ulloud kurreklee and lernd kwiklee. Kumpyyueter interprettaeshin iz enhhansd. Langwij tranzllaeshin giedz kan bee red kurreklee. Kumpyyueter tekst tue speech kan bee simplified. Heereeng and/or speech imppaird persinz kan akchulee see hou werdz aar proennounsd, beeyeeng graetlee aedid in lerneeng hou tue remidee speech praablimz. Az thu kreeyyaeter of Truespel, ie am interestid in enee aplikkaeshin that yue miet hav or invvizhin for it. Draap mee u lien. [more on Truespel]
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posted 9-97 rev. 11-00 rev 5-01
Tom Zurinskas, founder Truespel Foundation PO Box 71 Cologne, NJ 08213
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To discuss this page, join the saundspel e-group at www.egroups.com/group/saundspel[sb] What is the rule that allows true spell to alter between c and k for the /k/ sound.
[tz] Truespel does not alternate. /k/ is always k. There is no lone [c] in Truespel. The only [c] in the alphabet [see above] is for /ch/.The problem you encountered was generated by the incomplete 7000 word dictionary used with the BTRSPL and perlscript spelling converters. It did not transcribe some of the words in your text sample. This has been corrected with the availability of the new Truespel converter and dictionary at www.foreignword.com
[sb] Is the letter [o] ever used alone?
[tz] No, the [o] is never used alone: only in combinations such as ou, oe,or,.... [Check the alphabet]
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