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æ cæn totally be used in English for the "short" a. Thæt's the sound it's used to write in Danish and Norwegian, ænd in the Internætional Phoenetic Ælphabet, which is used by linguists to precisely trænscribe speech.
I'm not sure about ø, though. It's often used to write a sound thæt's like the "e" in bet, but with your lips rounded like you're pronouncing "oo" in boot. We don't hæve thæt sound in English, unfortunately.
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Fuck no.
I happen to be listening to autechre when I saw this.
Disappointed it's a different æ.
Where's @Sxan when you need them?
English did historically use æ, as the Latin ae-ligature (along with œ), though it went out of fashion at around the end of the Victorian era, and may not have been used in American English except as a stylistic affectation.
English historically has not done vowel symbols other than AEIOU and the occasional Y, leaving the speaker to bloody well figure out themselves which vowel sound a letter represents in a specific word, leaving it free to use ligatures and diacriticals as accents (i.e. the archaic dieresis in “coördinate” informing the reader that the “oo” is not a “ooh” digraph, these days seen only in the New Yorker). In contrast, languages like German and the Scandinavian languages treat accented vowels as distinct vowels of their own, moving them to the end of the alphabet in the dictionary.
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Oooohhh.... Is England asking to be invaded again? :D
Also Þorn and Ðis þing, which i do not know ðe name of. (Really, id prefer Shavian, but ðat would require significantly more work to get people to switch)
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¿In this era of change, what are you waiting for? ¡I'm once again asking you to add starting exclamation and question marks to English to help disambiguate sentences and provide early cues to mood and voice!