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Re: HUMOR: European English (fwd) - wots nu B Soc Si students ave nown about this for years!!! (fwd)



In fact this has already been done. Check out the Shavian alphabet.
Shaw left money in his will for someone who would concoct just such a
scheme: different characters for each of the 56 or so phonemes in spoken
English. Someone did so and collected. Penguin used to publish a copy of
Androceles and the Lion with English and the Shavian alphabet versions on
facing pages.
I discovered all this when one of my students insisted on keeping his
lab notebook in the Shavian alphabet.
Have a good holiday weekend.

John Cooper, Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA 17837-2005
jcooper@bucknell.edu 717-524-3673