Show HN: Ingglish – What if English spelling made sense?

6 points by ptarjan 4 days ago · 3 comments · 1 min read

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My 5-year-old is learning to read and I keep having to say "yeah sorry, that letter is silent" and "no, those letters make a different sound in this word."

So I built Ingglish — English where every letter always makes the same sound. "ough" alone makes 6 different sounds (though, through, rough, cough, thought, bough). In Ingglish, every letter has one sound, no silent letters, no exceptions.

  - Paste text to see it translated instantly
  - Translate any webpage while preserving its layout
  - Chrome extension to browse the web in Ingglish
  - Fully reversible — Ingglish text can be converted back to standard English (minus homophones)

The core translator, DOM integration, and website are all open source: https://github.com/ptarjan/ingglish

I'd love your feedback! Thanks.

Muhammad523 2 days ago

I think this is fun. Look at how it spells computer: kampyuuter

ptarjanOP 4 days ago

HN Frontpage in Ingglish: https://ingglish.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com...

WolfieH 3 days ago

Great idea. I'm sharing with my au-pair. English is tough enough as it is without the silly spelling.

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