A-Z of A-Z's if you could.....

[hobbit.]

if you could rearrange the alphabet why would you and how would you? what is your new world order of letters?

 

[hobbit.]

Do you have a stance on outlawing Vowels and rationing consonants? the Cyrillic alphabet looks quite sexy in certain fonts.

 

[Pookie]

If I could reorder the alphabet, I'd put "U" and "I" together.

Get it? "You" and "I" together?

*IshChuckle*

 

[hobbit.]

If I could reorder the alphabet, I'd put "U" and "I" together.

Get it? "You" and "I" together?

*IshChuckle*

Slightly worrying image...

 

[hobbit.]

Stop with all the sexy cyrillic talk, u r making me moist.

I fully agree with rationing consonants and must admit a preference for Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet. Who needs C,J,Q,W,X and Y anyways?

this is a very dry topic - go and put some talc on that right away.

 

[Pookie]

Awww! U R A Q T

U R 2!

 

[hobbit.]

OMG

 

[Conager]

I have always thought the emphasis on learning the alphabet in that entirely arbitrary, nonsensical order silly. The only thing useful about knowing the alphabet is it makes looking up a word in the dictionary (pre-internet) and filing clerk positions an option.

If you must have an agreed upon "alphabetic" sequence, it should be based on order of use. E I A O U Y S T R L N . . . or some such

 

[ericrodman101]

The letters could be reordered alphabetically based on how they are spelled - C is clearly spelled see, F is eff, G is jee, H is aitch, L is ell, M is emm, N is enn, Q is kew, R is are, S is ess, U is yew, W is doubleyew, X is Ex, and Y is wye. So the alphabet is A H R B D W E F L M N S X G I J K Q O P C T V U Y Z.

That's fifteen minutes of my life I'll never get back.

 

[hobbit.]

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If you must have an agreed upon "alphabetic" sequence, it should be based on order of use. E I A O U Y S T R L N . . . or some such

At last some sanity rather than smut in this thread. What about banning vowels though?

The letters could be reordered alphabetically based on how they are spelled - C is clearly spelled see, F is eff, G is jee, H is aitch, L is ell, M is emm, N is enn, Q is kew, R is are, S is ess, U is yew, W is doubleyew, X is Ex, and Y is wye. So the alphabet is A H R B D W E F L M N S X G I J K Q O P C T V U W Z.

That's fifteen minutes of my life I'll never get back.

the might put a statue up of you though for services to the telecoms industry?

 

[Conager]

I rather like vowels, gives tone and resonance to words. I do think so that there usage should no longer be compulsory. I can see the utility of barking out short, guttural commands with Germanic flavor like, "SCHNLL!" or "Achttt!" where only leading vowels to fill the lungs are used.

Not to derail this fine thread on a tangent, but I do think that rather than cut back on vowels, necessarily, we consider Russian utility and eliminate I definite articles. They (by definition) define nothing and serve no actual purpose. "The Book," or worse, "A Book" tells us nothing more than grunting "Boook!" and pointing.

Like I said, excuse the digression, I'll host a thread on the topic, as well as on the futility of Latin languages with their offensively arbitrary gendering and the excessive word count in every sentence. I am not dead set on the abolition of those languages however, because (admitedly) in the spoken word this is overcome by rapidamenté articulation and perhaps those languages can be saved in the written word by dropping vowels as you suggest.

 

[hobbit.]

you make some excellent suggestions, latin and for that matter ancient greek could be outlawed.

 

[Conager]

The letters could be reordered alphabetically based on how they are spelled - C is clearly spelled see, F is eff, G is jee, H is aitch, L is ell, M is emm, N is enn, Q is kew, R is are, S is ess, U is yew, W is doubleyew, X is Ex, and Y is wye. So the alphabet is A H R B D W E F L M N S X G I J K Q O P C T V U Y Z.

That's fifteen minutes of my life I'll never get back.

Brilliantly done. Salute!

You should repurpose that fine work as as a stand-alone thread. Regional affectations could affect the outcome.

How do you feel about silencio or pronouncement of the "Aitch" in such words as "What" or the "Doubleyew" in "Wholesome?"

 

[Ziggins]

With over a millennium of adaptation, the Roman alphabet is still a clumsy fit for the English language. Some speech sounds are duplicated with extra letters and some letters have multiple sounds. As mass electronic communication flickers out, literacy drops, and English changes and blends with other languages, and regional differences increase, the alphabet may become more modified or replaced over the next few centuries.

 

[Conager]

With over a millennium of adaptation, the Roman alphabet is still a clumsy fit for the English language. Some speech sounds are duplicated with extra letters and some letters have multiple sounds. As mass electronic communication flickers out, literacy drops, and English changes and blends with other languages, and regional differences increase, the alphabet may become more modified or replaced over the next few centuries.

Huh.

TIL!

Truly, I just learned the above acronym today.

 

[ericrodman101]

Brilliantly done. Salute!

You should repurpose that fine work as as a stand-alone thread. Regional affectations could affect the outcome.

How do you feel about silencio or pronouncement of the "Aitch" in such words as "What" or the "Doubleyew" in "Wholesome?"

Thanks for the fan mail! Not sure how I feel. I blew my brain the first time. 'What' is just a crazy word - it's 'wot' surely. I'm all for spelling reform. As for regional affectations, well it's time every one learned to talk proper, like me. You know it makes sense.