{"id":898,"date":"2008-10-11T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/10\/11\/898\/"},"modified":"2008-10-11T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T10:22:40","slug":"french-orthography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/french-orthography\/","title":{"rendered":"French Orthography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/heedoo\/870543298\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1256\/870543298_ec8b2bd0b8_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/heedoo\/870543298\/\">Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/heedoo\/\">heedoo<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>French orthography annoys me.  It manages to be based neither on the phonology nor on etymology.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Latin <i>e<\/i> has in many circumstances become \/wa\/ in French, but it&#8217;s neither written with a grapheme close to &#8216;e&#8217; (such as &#8216;\u00eb&#8217;) nor with one representing the phonemes (such as &#8216;oua&#8217;), but as &#8216;oi&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It would be possible to design a new orthography that would at the same time take French closer to its sounds and to its Romance relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>fleur<\/i> -> <i>fl\u00f6r<\/i> (compare Spanish <i>flor<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><i>trois<\/i> -> <i>tr\u00ebs<\/i> (compare Spanish <i>tres<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><i>autre<\/i> -> <i>a?tre<\/i> (compare Italian <i>altro<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><i>nous<\/i> -> <i>n?s<\/i> (compare Latin <i>nos<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><i>tu<\/i> -> <i>t\u00fc<\/i> (compare Latin <i>tu<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><i>aimez<\/i> -> <i>\u00e4m\u00e4ts<\/i> (compare Latin <i>amatis<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise Originally uploaded by heedoo French orthography annoys me. It manages to be based neither on the phonology nor on etymology. For instance, Latin e has in many circumstances become \/wa\/ in French, but it&#8217;s neither written with a grapheme close to &#8216;e&#8217; (such as &#8216;\u00eb&#8217;) nor with one representing the phonemes (such as &#8216;oua&#8217;), but as &#8216;oi&#8217;. It would be possible to design a new orthography that would at the same time take French closer to its sounds and to its Romance relatives. Some examples: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,162,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fr","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}