[pessimizer]

We'd have to cover every word with accents. We'd have to have accents for "letter has no effect on sound," "these three letters actually represent this other letter," and "pretend you're French when you say this, but French with a severe head injury."

[darebak]

There was some English guy that tried to create an English alphabet where each letter would correspond to exactly one sound, so around 44 letters in total. Kinda like Serbian Cyrillic.

I can't remember his name or the name of his project though.

[blaxis]

Shavian? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

[darebak]

Yeah, that's the one.

[ralferoo]

Not heard of this particular script before (although I see the answer was already posted), but it seems a bit redundant to have created an incompatible system when shorthand was in widespread use in the UK at the time, albeit mostly only used in a secretarial context.

[pessimizer]

That's doomed from the start. There's no way English speakers could deal with a written language with 19 different vowels.

[thechao]

And which dialect!?

[kaba0]

Based on my very phonetically written native tounge, I think I could map most of the English language down to Hungarian letters (there are some exceptions in both directions)

Just for note, it would look something like this:

Bézd on máj veri fonetikalli vrittn nétív táng, áj (sz)ink áj kud mep…

(Sz is a single letter in hungarian in this context)

[tdeck]

> We'd have to cover every word with accents.

Seems to work fine for Vietnamese.

[AussieWog93]

Have you ever tried learning Vietnamese as a second language? Shit's hard!

[abrowne]

But not because of the script.

[b112]

If every word has accents, then don't all words have no accents? Solved!

[SturgeonsLaw]

> French with a severe head injury

There's a word for this: Quebecois