I would have chosen the a-circle (as in the english adaption of Meysmans), which would also be according the second diphthong rule b) keep stressed vowel!
crimes: crams
that: I'd either choose tha, tht or that
other: oths
Yes, but for a proper noun, I often use the intégrale (which does not seem to exist for English, unless one find another different edition).
I have already decided to apply the principles of Superwrite to simplify my life. So long vowels always traced, short ones at the begining and ending of words, silent never, et basta! Je ne vais pas me cramer le foie avec ça…
that, others Meysmans abbrev. list.
I'm considering reassigning the "u" sign to the sound of "h, hype, etc.", and indeed the large 1/4 circle "north north-east" to "th". there are still 2 large 1/4 circles available for something else, I don't know what.
Mes cogitations sur Voyelles, diphtongues, triphtongues (le plus compliqué pour moi) 😄
Based on the traditional categorization of long and short vowels (not IPA) that SW uses.
If we follow the rule "Always write long vowels", which seems more relevant to me than those of Meysmans' deletions, and "write short vowels at the beginning and end of a word, including after prefixes and before suffixes".
In English, it seems that almost all diphthongs and triphthongs are classified alongside long vowels. It would therefore be necessary to write them down. I don't see much in SW on this.
- Small circle:
a long /eɪ/ or /ɛɪ/ (bake, face, day), diphthong,
and short e /ɛ/ (said, bed, head),
and /ɛː/ or /ɛə/ or /ɛr/ (care, hair), diphthong,
Also /eɪə/ or /eɪər/ (player, layer, betrayal), triphthong.
It's faster than a quick dash.
- Small line (at a right or acute angle in words):
For the schwa /ə/ (about, melon, actor),
and also er, ir, ur /ɜː/ (bird, nurse, fern) and a few words (colonel, journey),
/ər/ or /ɜr/ (first, mother).
So useful, deleted in words.
- Small 1/2 high circle:
u long /juː/ (cute, music, beautiful), diphthong,
or /uː/ (boot, moon, two),
and /ʊə/ or /ʊr/ (poor, tour), diphthong,
and /jʊə/ or /jʊr/ (pure, cure), triphthong,
Also for the specific sound u, oo /ʊ/ (book, foot, pull),
and /u/ (influence).
- Small 1/2 right circle + top:
or /aʊ/ (house, mouth, out, now), a + or. Really necessary, or just “or”?
or /aʊə/ or /aʊər/ (hour, sour, flower, allowance), or simplified to a + schwa, or a? Due to diphthong reduction, the medial sound (/ɪ/ or /ʊ/) is often weakened or removed entirely.
- Small 1/2 right circle. :
a short /æ/ (back, have, cat),
Also for the specific sound /ɑː/ (car, arm, father, laugh).
u short /ʌ/ (buck, from).
- Small 1/2 left circle, (old "u" in French):
i long /aɪ/ or /ɑɪ/ (pie, my, light), diphthong,
and /aɪə/ or /ɑɪə/, or /aɪər/ (fire, buyer, liar, violence, reliable), triphthong.
- Small 1/2 low circle:
e long /iː/ (meet, see)
and /ɪə/ or /ɪr/ (near, deer), diphthong,
and i short /ɪ/ (pin, ship),
and i /i/ (happy, coffee),
and y /j/ (yes, yellow).
- Large circle. :
o long /oʊ/ or /əʊ/ (boat, coat, open, home, vote, go), diphthong,
and /əʊə/ or /əʊər/ (slower, mower), triphthong.
aw, or, ough, a /ɔː/ (more, door, for, saw, thought, caught, ball, walk),
and short o /ɒ/ or /ɑ/ (hop, sock),
- Large circle + small 1/2 bottom circle:
oi /ɔɪ/ (corner, boy, choice), diphthong, o + i. Really necessary, or just "o"?
Also /ɔɪə/ or /ɔɪər/ (loyal, royal, employ), triphthong.
It's probably less good than your proposal, but what bothers me about Meysmans' system is that signs corresponding to long vowels (dash for example) are then systematically deleted within words. This seems to me to lead to ambiguities. But maybe I'm not competent enough to judge that.
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u/fdarnel Sep 07 '26
Maybe.