At 09:12 PM 7/4/2001, David Starner wrote:

>Since a formal proposal has been made to include Shavian in ISO 10646, I
>went looking sites for information about Shavian. I questioned whether it
>was actually readable - it certainly didn't seem to fulfill the claims of
>legibility that were made for it.

I learned to read it in a few days from the biscriptal edition of Androcles
and the Lion.

>After reading some of the web pages deriding the Latin script's suitability
>for writing English, I started to wonder if anyone has ever seriously
>proposed a Latin phonetic script for English. There may not be a letter for
>sh in English, but there is in Esperanto and Czech. There's a letter for
>most English sounds that are normally ambigious or digraphic in writing, in
>some language that uses the Latin script. To my untrained (and probably
>highly biased) eye, the Latin script looks to be one of the most readable in
>the world, so English may as well stay with it. Has such a proposal been
>made?

Yes. See "Meihem in ce klasrum", by Dolton Edwards, at
http://www.ecphorizer.com/Eck%20articles/meihem.html
"This was originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1946, after
the terms of George Bernard Shaw's will had come to light."

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