Hi Steve You made some very good points. You have brilliant concept on how to introduce a standard improved alphabet. The pronunciation guide of Standard...
Hi Everyone I notice that hardly anyone in this User group, uses Hugh's rather nice Ikonboard Forum at www.shavian.org. It has boards for Shaw messages and...
Hi Scott Thanks for the HTML version. I noticed a few typos in your calendar. I put the suggested ccorrections in Hugh's Ikonboard at www.shavian.org. Regards,...
Hello, I have always had a great interest in the usage of a phonemic system for written english, but nothing has surprised me as much as Shavian. Heh, I knew...
I read once that Shaw never learned to use a typewriter, but wrote all his plays in Pitman's shorthand. English, until recently, had very many local dialects....
Hi Chris Glad to find a fellow Shaw Enthusiast. It just goes to prove my feeling that the Shavian Alphabet is woefully unpromoted. Even an alphabet designer...
I hate to seem a malcontent here, but NOT! The keyboard layout is strange and badly "related" to TO. IMHO there are better ways to do this, but that's just...
Hi Star Glad to see you back. While you right that the Shaw keyboard mapping does perpetuate the randomness of a normal QWERTYUIOP keyboard, I still have to...
Thanks, paul, I've been lurking. No, I've found that if we are going to try to eliminate the ackward use of the roman alphabet for TO, then we should...
Hi Star and other people in Lurk mode I was wondering if we could re-visit the question of having an American subset of the Shaw Alphabet. I have had a...
... I would have thought that American, especially, would benefit from the rhotic letters since all American varieties I am familiar with are rhotic -- whereas...
Philip Newton
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Feb 2, 2003 5:45 pm
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Hi Philip Thank-you for your prompt feedback. Let me respond to 2 of your points, for the moment. First, as for the 6 Rhotic letters, I chose to bypass in the...
Remember, though, that there are non-Rhotic American accents as well. Ever been to Boston? I.M. Davis ... "A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire...
I would have thought that rhotic forms would be an advantage to rhotic groups rather than non-rhotic groups. When someone wanted to write "bird", for example,...
... From: Philip Newton To: shavian@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [shavian] Re: Greetings to a fellow Shavian. ... I...
... Someone knowing the current version of Shavian and speaking (non-rhotic) Brit-Eng might be inclined to read the "ah" version of the first word as "tarp"...
Newton, Philip
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Feb 3, 2003 11:52 am
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... From: Newton, Philip Someone knowing the current version of Shavian and speaking (non-rhotic) Brit-Eng might be inclined to read the "ah" version of the...
... subset of the Shaw Alphabet.<< As a strongly rhotic North American speaker, I find the original Shaw Alphabet quite comfortable, and I continue to think...
Watching the discussions that take place on this site convinces me that the plight of English spelling is essentially hopeless. I read a report of a study...
I am a high school student currently studying the Shavian alphabet, and I am currently having trouble finding the difference between the AIR, ERR, and ARRAY...
Hi Stephen Please don't forget that the Alphabet has to be designed for the benefit of even those foreign or untutored readers/writers who do not have recourse...
</lurk> ... My only quarrel here is that AH is more complicated to write than ON. Keep the four one-stroke simple vowels intact, please. Craig <lurk>...
Hello Student Guy You bumped into a problem a number of other people have suffered from. The sounds of some of Key words used to describe the sound of a ...
I guess I should clarify my previous statements. I was looking at some text-to-speech software source code. There is one section which converts a written ...
Hi Paige I realize that the difficulties in acheiving unanimity may reduce some of us to hopelessness, but I myself hope that we will eventually acquire enough...
Hi Scott It is hard to compare the difficulty of learning to write Chinese with the difficulty of learning to write English. There are a number of side issues....
... From: Craig Butz </lurk> ... My only quarrel here is that AH is more complicated to write than ON. Keep the four one-stroke simple vowels intact, please. ...
You probably would have done quite well in Chinese schools. The less legible the writing, the better ... it becomes a piece of art to hang up in the house ......
