The problem being, it is not a consonant sound. See my prior post.
The problem with getting rid of “x” is that then there would be a lot more words ending in “s” that aren’t plural, would be a source of confusion. Moreover, considering the present state of “literacy”, this would quickly be followed by even more misuse of apostrophe’s. Instead of “box”, we’d have “bok’s”. And how would you pluralize it? “bokses”?
I suppose that the statement that we don’t need all of our letters is litterally true. We can replace “q” with “kw”, “y” with “ll”, “c” with “s” or “k”, “f” with “ph”, “u” with “ew”, etc. Strictly speaking we really only need two letters. Anything more than that is to make words easier to parse. Moreover, they allow homophones to be spelled differently (although, again, there seems to be widespread ignorance of this fact).
However, don’t worry about mathematicians. We have no problem using Greek letters; we’d still use x,y, and z even if no one else did.
So, you are saying that the word “yes” has two syllables. I don’t agree.
Huh.
I’d never had that argument pointed out to me before. I’ll have to give it some thought.
But in the meantime, as any slow-talkin’ Texas cowpoke could tell you, “Eeeey-up. That’s the way it looks.”
Do you consider the word “I” to have two syllables? (ahh-ee) What about other diphthongs, such as “ou”? (ahh-oo) Or “A”? (ehh-ee)
I hear standard pronunciations of “y” and “w” as diphthongs, with the phonemes in reverse order, if you will. I don’t see why that should make them consonants.
Well, a diphthong is one syllable, but I never thought of “yes” as a diphthong. Maybe it’s just regional, but I don’t say “ee-es”. There is no “ee” sound at the begining of “yes” when I say it.
Or, looking at it this way, how would one spell “yes” using Lemur’s New Alphabet?
The fact is, you are using both phonemes, no matter how quickly you get the first one out of the way, whether it is a standard diphthong or what I’m insisting is a retrograde diphthong (a term I just made up, by the way), so if you count only one syllable in a diphthong, I guess you can say “yes” has only one syllable. And I’ll agree with you. So, no I’m not saying that “yes” has two syllables. But it does have two phonemes.
As I said in my first post, I’m good with keeping the twenty-six letters I learned in that “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” song when I was a kid. Consequently, I haven’t bothered yet to examine Lemur’s New Alphabet.
But I’m having such a good time in this thread that I believe I will, and get back to you.
Well, now that I’ve examined Lemur’s New Alphabet, I notice that he doesn’t seem to have done much vowel reform. He just says to “add hats to the vowels” as appropriate. It strikes me as a bit of a PITA to learn how to add diacriticals just for this one post, so I will take the liberty of constructing this key to represent the various vowel sounds and ask you to imagine that they have the appropriate, errr, hats.
Letter (: as in) Sound
A : acorn, make
A : cat, and
A : hall, mark
E : beet, speak
E : get, let
I : I, mind
I : this, wish
I : tiki, pique
O : go, no
O : Ozzy Osbourne, got
U : uniform, prune
U : umbrella, puppy
Since Lemur is depriving me of the retrograde diphthong use of “y”, I will spell “yes”:
IEs.
Dad99:
I don’t see a difference between your E and I.
Di yer think that wud werk ona globl messij bord liyk this?
AS for the OP, I don’t know, there is something about ecks rated and and EcKSEcksEcks movie that is unseemly. 
Gad, if only we’d had ths conversation before trillions of dollars was spent on computer equipment with ASCII code permanently wired into it, fixing the alphabet’s size and order.
There isn’t one. But don’t complain to me about it; it’s Lemur’s new alphabet.
Wait a minute. You proposed the vowel additions. And the idea is to SIMPLIFY, so redundancies need not applly.
No, I didn’t. Lemur proposed adding diacriticals (hats) to the vowels. I didn’t feel like learning how to do them for the purposes of the post, so I made a key to equate to the diacriticals that you can already find in the pronunciation guide of the dictionary.
“Dear Mister President: There are too many letters nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a nut. (signed) Abraham J. Simpson.”
Umm, Lemur, it’s already been done:
Oh…can you say the letter ‘K’?
Oh, yes. Khaki, kind, kettle, Kipling, kipper, Kuwait, Keble Bollege Oxford.
Yes, yes but why don’t you use the letter ‘K’ instead of the letter ‘C’?
What, spell bolour with a ‘K’?
Yes!
Kolour!
Oh, thank you! I never thought of that. What a silly bunt.
yEs, kIrli.