Question(s): creative spelling reform(s) of Techno-Greco-Latin-ish

    Interesting - & not really auxlang or Euroclone -  idea I just had was
how would members of this list would do a spelling reform of ISV (International
Scientific Vocabulary) or "Technoculturally Literate Koine" (TecLiK) *

* tada! _MY_ coinage, you conlangen peeps!

    4 approaches that come to my mind:

    1. etymological - but what version of the Greco-Latin roots? Erasmian or
Neo-Latin? or Classical Latin & Hybridized Greek? or hypermodernistic,
neologistic, multi-lingual "Mongrel-Dog" GrecoLatinish (acknowledging such wonderful,
new manga-langings such as _xerox_, _dynatron_, _biosphere_, _cyborg_ and
even vernacularisms like _megabrain(s)_, _biofeedback_, _fuzzy logic_,
_googolplex_, etc.)?

    2. phonetic/phonemic - Strict IPA style or what? or pijin-kreeol?

    3. "mnenomic orthography": partly regularized etymological spelling with
well-defined phonemic free-variation/style.
    Sort of like Papiamento/Papiamentu's creole "fractalized" orthographies
(yep there are at least _three_ official orthographies! **), but planned out.

** Papiamento/Papiamentu, a Portuguese-&-Spanish-lexifier creole with a lot
of English and Dutch lexical influences/imports, exists in the Netherlands
Antilles, the Netherlands and elsewhere. Total number of speakers is possibly 200,
000.
    There are 3 islands - Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire - and each island has
there own orthography. Aruba has a more etymological orthography; Bonaire and
Curaçao more or less phonological.

    4. some combination of all or some of the above, i.e. "Mongrel-Dog"
GrecoLatinish a la "mnenomic orthography" :)


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