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Old 12-24-2023, 05:25 AM   #69 (permalink)
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TIL about the Shavian alphabet. Now my head hurts.

There's a better English alphabet.

The Shavian Alphabet has 40 characters, where our normal alphabet has [technically] 52. Upper case is denoted with a bullet. It eliminates redundant letters (so annoying) and replaces two or three character per phoneme. A word like 'through' becomes three characters.

Needs 2/3rds the paper and ink, and it's already in Unicode in the High ASCII set. But the adoption curve is a brick wall.

Would you like to know more? https://shavian.info/
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