UFI
Uze’r Frendlee Inglish
<New Phonetic Notation System>
© Stanley Horner, 1999
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<UFI rules written in English>
<UFI aims to bring spoken English back to the written page.>
Why UFI?
If
UFI can go plase's whare stand'rd Inglish fearz too tred,
then why not
make that a poss’bil'tee?
If UFI can bring back too th print'd paje th soundz uv th speak'r,
then
why not ope’n that door?
Sinse Inglish haz such a strait forw’rd, ba.sic syntax;
why not
enabe’l a strait forw’rd, ba.sic ritt’n form?
manuscript from Syracyse University Library
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Manuscript from the Hill Museum and Manusecript Library
Lit'raree life
w'd be so much ezee'r
if UFI had been invent'd a milleneeum ago!
Th plan't will discuv'r UFI wun day! (aft'r Mark Twain)
<I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. (Mark Twain)>
I dont giv a dam for a man that kan o.nlee spel a w'rd wun way. (Mark Twain)
from: <http://www.kb.nl/galerie/100hoogtepunten/011-en.html>
<For an introduction to UFI, see Sincro.Nis’tee/Synchronicity, the book (Volume 2):
Horner, Stanley
E., 2000,
Sincro.Nis’tee—The Analogos E Ching: 64 orij’nl
imajes and po.emz>
(ISBN
1-55212-461-4), 187 pages, Indexed.
ARTSpress
in cooperation with Trafford Press; available from any book store or
directly at:
or write to the author at <iiae2@hotmail.com>.
<Reading UFI
Read
UFI (Uze’r Frendlee Inglish)
by following all the standard rules
for English
and
two new ones:
1
A
vowel (a, e, i, o, u) followed by a dot is sounded long,
i.e., it’s
sounded as spoken when saying the alphabet.
2
A
short-short (or slur vowel, the minimal sound used
to separate two
consonants) is pronounced as the ‘oo’ in the word
‘good.’>
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< Want to try reading the 64 verses of the Epic Poem written in UFI?>
Sum examp'lz uv th po.tenshul use uv ufi:
1
It can convay
th sound, often eve'n the acksent,
uv th speak' r too the ear uv th
read'r.
2
It can s'pport the existens uv di.alects, accents and nonsens soundz,
most uv which ar outside th ranej uv <Standard English Text> (SET).
3
It can fost'r
a sens uv playf'lness with' langwaje,
which then helps uze’rz
too explore fonics, th dynamics uv no.taysh' n,
and too gain new insite
intoo th aje o.ld tradish'nz uv riteing stand'rd Inglish.
4
It can emboddee adz, e-mail notes and uthr comune'tee forms
with' a sens uv sound
when it can enrich th meaning.
5
It can assist
thoze studdeeing Ingish az a Secund Langwaje
too focus on clear speech
and th stuckch'r uv Inglish.
6
It can bypass th problem uv needing a dicsh'naree too hav p'rfect text;
whot U say iz whot U rite.
(Wusiwur).; what you see is what you read
(Wusiwur).
7
It can bring back a way too rite and read exact oral speech
or nonsens
soundz, for po.ets, act'rz, sing'rz and uthrz.
8
It can enrich texts rit'n in stand 'rd Inglish
by inclooding fragments
uv UFI <between tags> be.tween tygz.
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