C and K

Well the silly thing about English is that the 'c' has two sounds, so without changing the spelling, you are stuck with them both. Plus there are the silent 'k's, and you need the 'c' for 'ch and so on.

Welsh solves the problem by having C always hard, and no letter K.

You sertainly kould separate the two - probably eliminate one -and in the long run it would sertainly make it easier to learn the language -  but it would make all the diktionaries obsolete.

My kurrent favorite is:

ghoti -

gh as in enough

o as in women

ti as in nation

English sure is a fishy language...

i never though of it, but there isnt a K in spanish is there?

No there isn't...I think we should get rid of the C...

Nah we should just keep the C for the ch sound.

Like:

I kould have gone to curc if I wanted to but I'm too tired now.

 

Ok peepl it appears  THat wee hav kom to a problem with wat we are to do with ingliS speling. I sA we just keep it as is.

Or something like that. Because if we try to change english spelling we're no better than the mormons who came up with the deseret alphabet. And then you have to ask yourself, do you really want to be like mormons.

Also Italian does not use K, except for foreign words.

You probably know that the K was the original greek letter for that sound. Romans inherited their alphabet from the Greeks present in Southern Italy, but through the Etruscans, who apparently confused the "K" and "G" sound -- maybe they just had an intermediate sound, like modern Japanese has just a sound that is middle way between "R" and "L", so that they have a hard time at appreciating the distiction between them in foreign words.

However, our C came from greek Gamma, i.e. their G (through an intermediate graphic form more or less like that: "<"). Since Romans, differently from Etruscans, needed two diferent letters for C and G sounds, the created the G by adding a sort of hyphen to the C letter.

The K was reintroduced when the Romans came in to contact with Greece. That probably was a sign that the C sound was somewhat changed in the meantime. Probably that is related to the fact that in many modern languages (not only in English) the C sounds differently acording to what letter follows it.

Nei, Ze ch and sh schould be replased wit sch instead.

Den it eliminates ze need to have c kompletely.  Das ist wonderbar!

Originally posted by hansioux Nei, Ze ch and sh schould be replased wit sch instead. Den it eliminates ze need to have c kompletely.  Das ist wonderbar!

But zere is a differenz bitween ch and sh. Ch is pronouzed like 'tsh'.
I zink sh kould be written like �, and ch could be written like č. Like it is in Slavik languazes.

Well actually on the subject, the reason why there are both C and K in English, is because of the Anglo-Saxons. You see, when the Anglo-Saxons brought their language containing Frisian, Angle, Saxon and Jute  elements, all of them used the Germanic alphabet, futhark. The futhark did not have the letter C, but because Anglo-Saxons came to Britannia, they invented one to represent with the letter C a sound that was s in front of E and I, and k in front of A, O and U. They also kept the letter K to represent allways the hard k. I'm not so sure why this happened though , it just did .

Haha, that is great. It looks like the way a german talks english.

And the c is usually redundant, and so is the q. They can almost always be switched for s or k. except for in ch, but there you could write -tsh.

Kikk the bitsh!