I hope everyone is appreciating the death of summer today
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I published with my undergrad advisor on something kind of related. For this you would probably generalize to like digit transformations and reorderings that happen to include this as a small special case. There’s no argument that it is useful however
Torment indeed
Another thing I’m considering is changing all unstressed em- and en- prefixes to im-/in-. There’s not really the same kind of phonemic case for this—you do occasionally hear people pronounce words like “entire” with [ɛ]
Anyway the dictionary is up to 5000 words and the internal inconsistencies are piling up again
Something beautiful in the fact it’s manufactured in a town named for a foreign country
However spelling would be easier if it were always an i. There’s no (consistent) meaningful distinction between the prefixes, and usually not an audible one. And in British convention, i is already more common (e.g. they don’t have a word “ensure”). So why not just inforce it in all cases?
Also this is a bit of spelling rationalization. The majority of words ending in -ment are not often used as verbs, so this test doesn’t strictly apply to them. However I want spelling to be easier if possible so treating the morpheme with a consistent spelling helps
Digital pentimento that will eventually be seen as a skeleton key in frielfology
