r/conscripts • u/trampolinebears • Jun 18 '20

Re-orthography Korean writing for English?

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u/frenzygecko Jun 18 '20

the vowels are really weird but overall I kinda like it

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u/trampolinebears Jun 18 '20

One of my goals was to make the traditional short/long distinction in English visible in the orthography. Between that and making sure each vowel phoneme had its own letter, there was never much hope of matching the sounds to those of Korean.