I mean scripts like Shavian or Quikscript. Are these script useful to you in your day-to-day life? How are they better than the original scripts of your language?

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    I hadn’t heard about them until now. Here’s a Wikipedia article.

    As a parent teaching kids to read, I’d love an alphabet that didn’t have the stupid ambiguities of current English. Trying to explain to a kid that “c” can make a few different sounds is a pain in the butt.

    • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
      8·
      1 month ago

      The writing system has its flaws too.

      • I and l look the same.
      • 0 and O look the same.
      • Why are their two totally different cases? Q looks nothing like q and the distinction serves no communicative purpose
      • Similarly, why is there printed letters and joined-up letters – two totally different ways of writing?
      • Loops are sometimes merely stylistic, but some letters like say b has a loop that is essential to it.
      • b and d are mirror-images, and this confuses some children
      • “dot your I-s and cross your T-s” – the pen has to be lifted from the page to do this, so people don’t always bother.

      Some of these might sound like non-issues to grown-ups, but they’re hard for children.

        • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          In my experience, “joined up” is the British English way of referring to the mostly informal way that people write “joining up” their letters. I don’t think it’s as formally structured and taught like it is (was?) in America, where pretty much every letter is different than in print.