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is 2023 the year i try to make å a thing or is it still too soon
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@Lady What is this, Swedish??
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@coriander look sometimes A makes the sound of an O and idk what to do with that other than to write it as an A topped by a little O
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@Lady This is where I realize how different our ideolects are because NONE of those vowels are rounded for me lmao
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@coriander oh i have cot~caught i say fall /fɑl/ not /fɔːl/ but that /ɑ/ is in fact the sound of a short O in my english
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@coriander "hot" etc is said with the same vowel as "hall"
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@Lady Fascinating
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@coriander when i actually redid english orthography completely to be sensible i used Å completely differently, to represent “ou” e.g. mouse=mås, house=hås
and you know if i was redesigning English completely to be sensible i would stand by that, but in terms of more of a gradual transition i think that leaving OU as a digraph is probably fine
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@coriander speaking of, i forgot the other option
we can forget rhoticity and just go back to writing “all” as “orl”
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@Lady Now you're just being Coach Z
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@coriander i mean the obvious alternative is to write tol and smol but it gets fuzzier with words like fol (fall), bol (ball), etc
tål, smål, fål, bål, these are more obvious