Jack and Stephen, According to Tauber, On Language, Shaw mentions GHOTI as a defect in the traditional orthography in a London Times article. Probably a...
I noticed in your discussion of the Nonsense word Ghoti that you said that: "Counting these, the number of ... slightly inflated ... these would ... adult. A ...
paul vandenbrink incurred the wrath of Bob on Feb 9, by saying ... At the bottom I've included a list of all words on my computer's standard dictionary that...
Hi Bob I was responding to the idea of simplified spelling, rather than strictly speaking about the Shavian alternative. Obviously, I have a big stake in...
... Done! ... Pronounced like "sk": ASCII - This is an acronym, as many of you know, for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange", and as a modern...
... I cannot, at least from this computer and email program (which are probably both equally at fault - Pegasus Mail for not understanding UTF- 8 (!!!) and...
Philip Newton
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... Yes, of that I'm familiar. I haven't yet managed to get Win98 to display plane 1 characters at all, no matter what the encoding. I can't even get it to...
... Perhaps you just need to download and install a Unicode Shavian font? Are you running OS X? I have a font available which should work on that system, at...
Hi Folks, I don't know it this issue has been brought up or even thouroughly discussed. So I decided to test the waters. The Question posed: "What role should...
... I think it should be all of that, and of course nobody is preventing that from happening, there are no laws against it, etc. It just needs more exposure. ...
Hi Ethan, I see your point. The only reason I didn't mention teaching Shavian to Children is because of how entrenched T.O. is to older generations. Shavian...
... I believe that it could be adopted as an official format for writing English. However, it would probably be best done in a small country that does not...
... I see wierder things than squares... if I didn't know better I'd call it a garbage dump. --Star ===== Why is it always me and the burning death? ...
... Yes, I see! It's in your reply, having been scrambled by your software and then sent along. That text, which shows up as boxes or question marks to some...
While Googling, I just happened to run across this site: http://www.cafeshops.com/shavian They seem to sell T-shirts and coffee mugs with a Shavian alphabet...
... As I recall this was attempted back in the 1960s with the Initial Teaching Alphabet. The ITA was a phonemic alphabet. Many children's books were published...
awesome! wish they had more but, hey, that's great.. Spelling reform now! I love it. I didn't know there was a serif version of shavian... hmmm.... Alright,...
... I have already volunteered to have shavian.org run from my mithrandir.com server. Perhaps we can devise a strategy where the community can use that site....
Hi Philip You might want to check the internet on your assumptions about dyslexia. I have seen a couple articles in the last few months that show from ...
Obviously, if you are very literate in the Roman Alphabet, going back to Kindergarden and staarting over can seem to be a chore. I suspect, the best strategy...
Hi Folks, Concerning the role Shavian should play to literate English-speaking world: As for me I am highly literate with Traditional Orthography (T.O.)....
Hi Carl & the group As for the role the Shavian Alphabet should play to literate English- speaking world: I find literacy even with the Traditional Orthography...
... I have a program that I use to do my translations. However, it has not yet been updated to the proper Unicode points, and the dictionary of words it uses...
Hi Paul and others, I'm glad you agree with me on certain points of interest. Yes, I plan on transliterating the Holy Bible (Old and New Testament). As for...
