Neography and Writing systems

202 readers

1 users here now

Home for conscripts constructed writing systems and existing writing systems

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What single addition would be most useful to the English writing system? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

40 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Every once in a while I sometimes think about remaking the English writing system, as is normal I'm sure😅, and I wonder what would be the most useful revision of punctuation or phonetic.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not grammar, but semantics, why is glass for a drinking glass, the material glass, and spectacles all the same word ?

There is no specific general word for a drinking glass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

What about "cup"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

because wood or rock don't work in the other instances. Hand me that rock (person is holding spectacles) - you'd say - and they'd look at you like you had brain worms. Or coming home from a warm afternoon, walking in the house and remarking "I SURE COULD USE A BIG WOOD OF ICED TEA", because again, that makes no sense. I kid, I kid, sometimes I like to let the obvious response out even though it's the brain worms talking.

That said, your other point - not so much - Goblet chalice beaker stein mug cup yeah there aren't words for these things at all.