Talk:Language reform
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[edit] Unsourced claim
I would like to see a source for this claim, which strikes me as highly unlikely:
- The International Phonetic Association has made numourous attempts to change all languages accross the globe. This reform does not delve into grammar, or sentence structure, instead, simply asks that we do away with all the alphabets across the globe and use a single, unified one instead. This makes use of the concept of the perfect alphabet, one that has a symbol for every sound that humans can verbalise.
AFAIK, the purpose of the International Phonetic Alphabet is make it possible to provide a phonetic transcription of every spoken language, but I have never heard that the International Phonetic Association intended this to replace any language's common orthography or that it "asks that we do away with all the alphabets [sic; perhaps you mean writing systems?] across the globe". --Angr (tยทc) 00:41, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
- im sorry, i really am not an expert, but there was no article on this and language reform facinates me. evrything here is from my own (patchy) knowledge. please, by all means do what you will to the article, i want it to be awesome. mastodon 01:12, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Date rewritten
Under "Simplification" changed "Spanish (in the XVIII century)" to "Spanish (in the 18th century)"
