Talk:Truespel
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Here is a short story with all the sounds and rules of truespel for USA English: That quick beige fox jumped in the air over each thin dog. Look out, I shout, for he's foiled you again, creating chaos.
Here it is in truespel: That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thee air oever eech thhin daug. Look out, ie shout, for heez foild yue uggen, kreeaeteeng kae'aas (kreeyyaeteeng kaeyaas).
A close look a this short story shows all you need to know about truespel.
Note
that kae'aas uses an apostrophe to separate two vowels.
that kree"aeteeng uses a double apostrophe to start stressed syllable.
that uggen uses a double consonant to start a stressed syllable.
that with no double consonant or " in a word, stress is on first syllable.
that ~ch, ~sh, ~th, ~thh, ~zh are doubled ~ssh, ~cch, ~tth, ~tthh, ~zzh.
Use the converter at [1] to do a truespel phoneic conversion of any text in tradspel.
This article is more of a sales pitch ("big improvement", "best", "easy") than a NPOV article on a specific approach to spelling reform. POV should be reviewed by someone with knowledge of this field.
I agree. It certainly needs to be improved to sound more neutral. Voortle 14:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I agree. I am an academic working on writing systems and spelling. This article is really a piece of promotion for the author's own project, and as such could be placed under the delete/vanity tag rather than just NPOV. Additionally, the books he refers to are published by a self funded vanity publisher called authorhouse.com.
84.67.210.35 15:27, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
This article was not started by the author of the project. The author has only started editting it after someone else created it as a stub article. Voortle 03:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] article's bias
Not only is there a bias in favour of the accuracy and utility of this system/theory, there are unsubstantiated claims attempting to quantify its value. A claim of 15% improvement over dictionaries is an advertising technique, not an informative one.
This article indeed sounds like an advertisement because the author of "truespel" is using it as one. He has an interest in its adoption, but the system is not founded on any expertise with spelling systems or an training in phonetics or phonology.
A neutral POV would identify the intentions of the author of the "Truespel" books (beyond any claims he makes regarding a detatched interest in increasing literacy) and the limitations of his theory. Mcovarru 10:12, 7 December 2006 (UTC)Mcovarru
