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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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It would be far more consistent with the pronunciation of other similar words.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'm more partial to an entirely new alphabet,

F/f - For

U/u - Oopse

U̇/u̇ - Up

Uṙ/uṙ - Nurse

Uı/uı - I

UE/ᵫ - Book

Þ/þ - Thanks

Ð/ð - The

O/o - Oh

Ȯ/ȯ - On

Ou/ou - Out

Ouṙ/ouṙ - our

Oṙ/oṙ - Or

Oı/oı - Oil

Œ/œ - "Oh" isolate

Œṙ/œṙ - "oer the ramparts we watched"

Œı/œı - owing vs boing

Ṙ/ṙ - Earth

R/r - Read

K/k - Court

C/c - She

Q/q - Quick

G/g - Go

Gq/gq - Gwen

Gx/gx - Ghurfa

V/v - Of

W/w - With

H/h - He

X/x - loch

N/n - Negation

Ny/ny - ñapa

I/ı - Eat

Iṙ/ıṙ - Ear

Y/y - You

İ/i- In

P/p - Park

S/ſ - So

Z/z - Is

T/t - To

Tc/tc - Check

B/b - Be

E/e - Elder

Ė/ė - A

Eı/eı - Acre

Eıṙ/eıṙ - Air

M/m - Me

L/l - Like

Ŋ/ŋ - Ring

D/d - Do

Dj/dj - Jacket

A/a - All

Au/au - Awe

Aṙ/aṙ - Are

Aı/aı - Sky

Aıṙ/aıṙ - Ire

Æ/æ - And

J/j - Genre

Eklızıæstiku̇ſ, 34:18-21

Humevṙ givz æz tceıritı, gᵫdz ðeı hæv teıkin buı foṙſ oṙ buı diſȯniſtı, ðeıṙ doneıcėnz aṙ ȯbſın; ðeıṙ giftſ aṙ ė ceımfėl mȯkṙı v djenṙȯſitı.

Benevolenſ diteſtſ tceıritı givin buı blu̇dı hændz; no ėmount n'oṙ vælyu given buı ſu̇tc ſṙvz t ėpız ð huıeſt.

Humevṙ teıkſ wėt litėl filz ð ſtoṙz v ð diſfoṙtcund, ðei d ð ſeım æz wu̇n hu mṙdṙz ð tcuıld bifoṙ ðeıṙ peırent'ſ uız.

Đ fᵫd v ð disfoṙtcund z ðeıṙ luıfblu̇d, ænd humevṙ difrȯdz ðem v it, ðeıṙ hændz aŗ ſteınd red; al ð seim æz eni mṙdṙṙ oṙ brut v difrint mınz.

Levitiku̇ſ, 19:33-34

Wen ė forinṙ livz ėmėŋgſt Y, i yoṙ kėntcrı, dn miſtcrıt ðem.  Ðiſ pṙſėn livıŋ ėmėŋgſt Y mu̇ſt bı tcrıtėd æz yoṙ on. Lu̇v æ d u̇ntu yoṙ neıbṙ æz Y wᵫd yoṙſelf.

R fully becomes a semi vowel same as U to W or I to Y, several grammar words get Shavian style abbreviations for brevity, and where french has accents, spanish has the ñ, and german has umlauts, the expanded english vowels have single dots the way lower case i already does.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Mate just use IPA, at that point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

IPA is less readable, also this is an orthographic alphabet, the true letter count is much smaller, and it actually gets even smaller if you use the "sloppy" version, which is basically just grabbing an Alphabet language Gboard for þ ð ŋ and ſ, using ue oe and ae as needed, and using u o i e a as you would their dotted (or undotted in i's case) counterparts and just hoping context makes clear what the literal text doesn't necessarily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You designed this for GBoard?

That explains it, I guess...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Would you believe me if I told you that the dot letters were actually what made up the majority of what isn't in the keyboard normally?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Went through the whole thing expecting to speak German, was very disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean English is a germanic language, not too surprising how german phonemic spelling would look considering how much of our fucked up current system is owed to trying to make loan words consistent with their language of origin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is awful and you need to stop right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Qit haṙcıŋ muı tcil bro.