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  1. So I've been skimming through some stuff by Isaac Pitman trying to get a read on the guy & he was one of those alphabetic principle spelling reform guys & so, predictably, did weird (awesome) stuff like write a phonetic version of the New Testament using the English Phonotypic Alphabet—an alphabet that he invented, right?

    But this honestly just reads like a 240 page shitpost

    archive.org/details/thinutesta

    #phonotypicAlphabet #alphabeticPrinciple #spellingReform

  2. Here's a new #introduction post to celebrate moving to this new server. (Previously @[email protected])

    I'm a #linguistics instructor at the University of Alberta. Academic interests include #phonetics, #quantitativeMethods (#statistics), and #speechTechnology. Working on #accessiblePedagogy in all my teaching. Hobby interests include #internetLinguistics, #spellingReform, and #ScottishCountryDancing. 🤓

  3. Here's a new #introduction post to celebrate moving to this new server. (Previously @[email protected])

    I'm a #linguistics instructor at the University of Alberta. Academic interests include #phonetics, #quantitativeMethods (#statistics), and #speechTechnology. Working on #accessiblePedagogy in all my teaching. Hobby interests include #internetLinguistics, #spellingReform, and #ScottishCountryDancing. 🤓

  4. Here's a new #introduction post to celebrate moving to this new server. (Previously @[email protected])

    I'm a #linguistics instructor at the University of Alberta. Academic interests include #phonetics, #quantitativeMethods (#statistics), and #speechTechnology. Working on #accessiblePedagogy in all my teaching. Hobby interests include #internetLinguistics, #spellingReform, and #ScottishCountryDancing. 🤓