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TRUESPEL - The First Worldwide Standard SpellingTruespel is the world’s first standard phonetic spelling which marks stress that is based solely on English common usage of roman characters for phonetic spelling. It enables us to instantly read and write all languages. Traditional orthography (TO) for English consists of 40 sounds (phonemes). All 40 sounds are present in the following story:
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Traditional Orthography "That quick beige fox jumped in the air over each thin dog. Look out, I shout, for he's foiled you again." Truespel "That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thu air oever eech thhin daug. Look out, ie shout, for heez foild yue uggen." IPA ðæt kwik beiZ f ks tZ^mpt in ð
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Chekt Speling Xa·t kwi·k bei2 fo·x ju''mpt in x er o'vr ich thi·n dog. Lu·k aut 'I shaut, for hiz foild iu a'gen. Eklekto' Thæt kwik beizh fo.x ju'mpt in th er o'vr eech thin dog. Lu.k aut I shaut for heez foild iu a'gen. THE TRUESPEL SOLUTION
"That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thu air oever eech thhin daug. Look out, ie shout, for heez foild yue uggen."
TRUESPEL RULES
1. 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. (e. g., sundae, see, pie, toe, true)2. Voiced "th" is spelled "th" (that), but unvoiced "th" is spelled "thh" (thhin).
3. "G" is always hard. "Y" is always a consonant.
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. The accent shifts to the syllable after a double consonant (example, desert and dessert), except for "sh" "ch" "zh" "th" and "thh" which double the first letter (thh =tthh) for accenting. A double consonant at the beginning of a word accents it in the sentence.
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.40 phonemes
17 voulz = laung voulz short voulz kumbbiend ae - sundae a - at aa - baa, ah air -hair
ee - glee e - yes au - august er - her
ie - pie i - it oo - wood or - for*
oe - toe o - for* ou - out
ue - blue u - up oi - oil
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
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In tabular form, Truespel looks like ALC Fonetic. 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: ubbout,
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 i o ow our up, but uggoe (ago) out (out) our (our)
Truespel shows stress with double letters and uses digraphs for extended vowels. This makes a
Sample 6: Truespel 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 orthographic opshins. source
Sample 1 ( IPA broad romic )
Speling rifo
Truespel transcriptions about 10% longer than an augmented script such as IPA broad romic.Vowel Phoneme Table for British English (RP) with key words
Mapping Truespel onto the 21 essential sounds for RP English shown in IPA - 4x6 table
Since Truespel merges o/aa, and u/schwa, it has only 16 vowels plus the R combinations.
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6 checked + 6 unchecked + 5 diphthongs + 4 ending with schwa = 21 essential vowelsOnly when the free vowel is followed by a consonant does it need to be distinguished from a closely related short vowel.
IPA & Truespel Vowel Notations 6 checked | 6 unchecked | 5 - diphthongs | 4 - 8 with shwa
Chekt - short Free - long Difthongs 4 with schwa æ a a: aa ai ie a at, ax, ask, cat alms, want, star 5 eye, ice, bite are, care | ire, fire e e 3: er ei ae e edge get, elbow 3 her, girl, urban ace, ape, vein air, care, there, barely i i i: ee oi oi i: it, in, index, ill eel, east, very oil, boy, loyal ear, fear, deer, mere : au
ou oe ox, cot, otter awe, call, cost oh, oat, low for, four, floor, more u oo u: ue ju yue u hook, put, could ooze, zulu, zoo you, few, fuse your, sure, cure ^ u au ou au up, cut, putt ago, sofa, unit out, down our, flower, power The IPA turned e, turned a, and turned c are unavailable in ASCII and Latin-1
The peach colored cells are not included in the Jones/Wijk essential phoneme inventory.
All checked vowels (vowels which are checked or stopped by a consonant) are short and all free vowels, with the exception of schwa in an initial position, are long. If a vowel occurs at the end of a word, it is by definition a free vowel and does not need to be distinguished from a checked vowel. Thus "See mie haloe" could be "Se mi halo." or "Si m'y halo." in CKS.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.
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Comments & Questions [send any questions you may have to rapidrytr@fcmail.com][sb] What is the rule that allows true spell to alter between c and k for the /k/ sound.
[tz] Truespel does not alternate. There is no [c] in TS. /k/ is always k. The problem was generated by the incomplete dictionary used with the BTRSPL and perlscript spelling converters. This will be corrected soon.[sb] Is the o ever used alone?
[tz] No, the [o] is never used alone: only in combinations such as ou, oe,or,....
