There's a better English alphabet.

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People with dyslexia looking at this pile of similar single stroke squiggles and feeling pain

One problem that the Latin alphabet has that Shavian doesn't solve is that there are a lot of letters that are easily confused for people with visual processing difficulties. Specifically d, b, p, q are just rotations or flips of each other. At least in the Latin script you get some letters that don't have like doppelgangers like e, y, x. But every Shavian letter has a flipped or rotated twin!

As a dyslexic person, this is an absolute nightmare

One other problem I see with shavian is you can't easily read it upside down. You have to have an orientation marker.

My impression is that the designing the letters in a way so that can be written with a single stroke was a good idea in the past, but a bad idea in the current age. A lot of letters look quite similar on first sight, the roman alphabet is more varied. Which I would hypothese makes it easier to read.

In college I tried to learn Shavian to take notes with in class, but had a lot of trouble deciding what vowel characters to use, especially for unstressed syllables. Like if the first syllable in “believe“ should be “bih,” “buh,” or “bee.” And since repeating “believe”over and over to myself was kind of freaky to my roommates, I gave up.

Hangul was invented hundreds of years ago with the same intention for the Korean language.

One major drawback to the Shavian alphabet: It would completely destroy spelling bees.

I'm not dyslexic but even I can tell this must be every dyslexic's nightmare

One problem is that Shavian sometimes obscures related words. Infinite and finite would be written much differently even though they’re related.

shavian looks like a nightmare situation for dyslexia

Commenting again after three months of playing with Shavian on my own and tryna learn the “standard” spellings in the Read Lexicon (meant for easing international communication, if anyone wasn't really paying attention/didn't go to the website): holy cow y'all were NOT kidding that this alphabet makes you weirdly aware of your own accent!! I'm so aware now of the fact I only use the [ɔ] sound in /ɔw/ ⟨𐑴⟩ and /ɔɹ/ ⟨𐑹⟩ and never, ever use the /ɒ/ ⟨𐑪⟩ sound. I'm constantly being shocked thinking “I'd spell this with an /ɑ/ ⟨𐑭⟩… but I guess I'd better check if that's the “standard” versio— WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘SPELL THIS WITH AN ⟨𐑪⟩/⟨𐑷⟩‽‽’” 😅 I think it'd be fun if someone wrote a story in Shavian where all the narration was in the “standard” spellings and all the dialogue was in dialectal pronunciation spellings. It might take some getting used to but once you were I think it'd be cool to be able to guess where all the characters are from based on how their dialogue is written. Might also be a big help to people like actors (especially voice actors) and audiobook narrators!

I took a course in college called “Diction For English and Italian Singers.” Each vocal sound was represented by a symbol. Without knowing any Italian, I can sing in Italian with perfect pronunciation if the words are “spelt” in that script.

I think if it wasn't designed to be only one stroke, it would have been way better. More diversity of shapes helps reading accessibility. Also the rotation feature could as well be like in Japanese where it's the same character but with an additional feature and would be better for dyslexic people and whoever wants to put a text in a different orientation without the ambiguity of the text looking upside down

I like the way you hesitated after “ the SH in share “…. (0:42).

𐑲 𐑧𐑯𐑡𐑶𐑛 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑝𐑦𐑛𐑰𐑴! (translation: this was a great video!) Shavian kind of reminds me of the Dvorak keyboard layout which is an alternative to qwerty. Qwerty was designed to slow you down while typing so that type writing machines didn't jam, whereas Dvorak allows you to type significantly faster once used to it. So like Shavian it's objectively the better choice, but they'll both never be fully adopted because everybody has already invested their time into using the Latin alphabet and Qwerty

So your video has sent me down a rabbit hole. I'm now writing all the magic scroll props for my D&D game in Shavian. Glad the algorithm landed you on my home page

I'm Utahn, and early during Utah's colonization there were a lot of religious immigrants/refugees moving there from across Europe who spoke different languages. In an attempt to make learning English easier, the Mormon leadership instituted the "Deseret Alphabet". Although short lived, I think it's pretty interesting, and like to imagine the alternate reality where it was more widely adopted across the Mormon corridor. Still, it is occasionally seen on pioneer era structures and gravestones.

I love how whenever I learn a new alphabet I just start beat boxing. You were telling me to spot the difference in t and p and t t t t t t p s t b s p t b pt bb pt ts kh. It was really fun for me to learn the Greek alphabet because I added so many sounds to my beatboxing vocabulary like gnK gk wt It's so awesome how humans can make so many sounds