Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Government were as intelligent as George Bernard Shaw, it would junk the English alphabet, adopt a new one of 42 letters so that each sound would have its own symbol. So wrote Shaw to the London Times last week. For years he has used Pitman shorthand to save time in writing. Said Shaw: "The fact that Russia, with its 35-letter alphabet, can spell my name with two letters [Wo ] instead of four may conceivably make it impossible for us to compete economically in the world with Russia...
Interglossa. A chapter on the evolution of the alphabet opens the book; a section on the need for an international auxiliary language closes it. Author Bodmer reviews the efforts to create such an auxiliary, beginning in 1661, when Aberdeen's George Dalgarno invented his Universal Character and Philosophical Language. He comes down to Basic English and its current competitors (Iret, Swensen, Aiken), in all of which Bodmer sees virtues. But he does not share Winston Churchill's complete enthusiasm for Basic. He favors a synthetic interlanguage rather than a simplified ethnic one. He and Hogben have drafted...
...ruined," cried Alexandre Dumas' mother just before his birth. But he had fair skin and hair (which later became kinky), blue eyes. As a boy he had a hard time learning the alphabet, but he wrote beautiful longhand. Said his mother: "Every idiot can write well...
...down by Cornyn. The students talk back. If the back talk rings false, Shwe Waing calls for repetition until it sounds right to a Burmese ear. He can explain new words in terms of those already learned. The boys make careful notes of all sound effects in a phonetic alphabet, study them aloud in barrack dormitories, on the street, at meals. Bit by bit, somewhat as Burmese children do, but with the best of technical help, these fighting men master spoken Burmese. Later they can study the alphabet, learn to read...
...scene is laid on Long Island. There is a mildly sumptious house, in which live: 1) a harassed business man, the paterfamilias, who has just returned from Washington with the old gags about the alphabet agencies, 2) a lovable old grandmother, 3) a debutante, the daughter, and 4) a playboy, the son. This is called The Typical American Home...