Unifon - yet another English phonetic alphabet

[trochee]

I just discovered Unifon, which strikes me as Yet Another quixotic attempt at spelling reform.

What I didn't know was that divalea was using Unifon to represent slang in her new Rumble Girls cyberpunk/mechasuits/highschool-drama book. I found that out from Comics Worth Reading, which seems like a good place to find these things.

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[trochee.livejournal.com]

I don't think our spelling system is going to change. We can't even change the President, let alone the metric system. But it's a nice fantasy.

On the other hand, there's something nice about spellings that distinguish between identically pronounced words. In that respect, English orthography is like Chinese.

Regarding your PS: could it have been George
Bernard Shaw?

[moroveus.livejournal.com]

Ah yes! That's who it was!