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Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 days ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fell for the usual trap of teaching something complex. If you teach a simplified version, you just teach... the simplified version. You didn't teach the actual complex thing and the learners will eventually still have to learn that

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

I'm not even convinced it's simplified. It's got ~40 letters in it they said.

But I'm also not an educator, so may be missing some points.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

I posted this in Longreads and found out about it from the linked Guardian article. I had never heard of it previously

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’m guessing it hasn’t been deemed noteworthy enough to add to Unicode alongside Shavian.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Username checks out...

Reddit tropes aside, I did look briefly to see if I could add it and couldn't find anything. I quite like it and read it fluently.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Interesting. I don't know that this particular solution seems great but English is a complete mess when it comes to knowing the pronunciation of a word from reading it alone for sure.

[–] Pleat1752@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My Latin American friend took one look at an English sentence written in this script and said it was a lot easier for them to understand.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it would be nice for things like rough, rouge, and rogue to look more different than they do.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, that's super interesting!

[–] Pleat1752@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

ies, i theenk it ees becoz it ees uriten a beet more fonetikaly, uich is jow spanish uorks as a languaj