wut if?
‘we lived in a perfect world!’
Are you having trouble with finding the word you want in the English Dictionary? Probably because you know the sound, but the word you want isn’t spelled the way it sounds?. It’s in there, but you can’t find it. Frustrating!, right? Sometimes you just give up!. Well, the solution is here! This dictionary spells words the way they ‘saund’, Fow•net•ik•lee Phonetically. Take a few minutes to read Fawniks Rewlz & in4maashan and Grafeem Saundz to learn a few new sound symbols and your ready to go. I had to do some research and found that English sound symbols are not cosistant from word to word (no standards) and that is why pronunciation is all ‘Guess and by Golly’. We need one sound symbol for each sound and that symbol is to be used only for that sound. I have found we are lacking a few sound symbols and need to create new ones that we can recognize that sound when they are placed in a word. I’m sure some of these new symbols will be unfamiliar to you, but they are explained in detail (Grafeem saundz) and will make all this English spelling business a little more clear for you.
Can you imagine what it would be like if every time we spoke, letters that form words would float from our mouths and suspend themselves in mid-air so we could see and read what that person just said? (Like cartoon characters?). Naw!, that couldn’t happen. If it did, we wouldn’t be able to walk around without bumping into them ‘til we got stuck in some corner somewhere and couldn’t get away.
If they did stay visable after we spoke we would be digging up words that were 5000 years old from archeological sites and trying to arrange them to make sense out of them. At least their picture words were consistent or we couldn’t decipher what their meaning was. We lost that consistency when we started to write words on paper (visual) as to the spoken word (sound), they don’t match up. If you’re going to have a standard, it needs to be consistent!
Here’s a scary thought. Wut if? In a 100,000 years from now, someone dug up an English Dictionary from an achient dig and tried to read it, because the English language had been lost or evolved, they would have to throw it away because they wouldn’t be able to figure out what was said. The sounds don’t match the words, We need a ‘Rosetta stone’ and this book is it.
Millions and Trillions and Megagillions of words are spoken every day in about 3,000 languages and dialects throughout the world. That’s a lot of words! As a matter of fact, each one of us has our own unique speech patterns and mannerisms that only we use. That makes 5 Billion dialects (World population). Moreover there are 44,000,000 (that’s million!) people in America or 26% that are considered functionally Illiterate. (reference, Chris Mathews, CNBC News), and that’s the best percentage in the world. Other countries are worse off than we are.
We are a race of mimics. We copy what is around us. If everyone in your family speaks Spanish, you will speak Spanish. If they speak Japanese, you will speak Japanese, If your friends wear their hat backwards, you will wear your hat backwards. Why would we speak a different language than our peers. They wouldn’t understand us nor we them. That’s how we communicate. Even the English don’t speak ‘our’ language (Pip pip - what ho?, Jolly good chap, Blood pie?, Bloody this, Bloody that, Tea and Crumpets?, Great Googly?). Sounds like a foreign language to me. The dream would be to have a Universal Language, which everyone could use and understand, Not possible!, no one could ever agree on any one language.
If words did flow from our mouths so we could see them, they wouldn’t look anything like the written words that we use everyday. They would probably make better sense and could be more easily understood. So, what would they look like? Well, that would depend on whether you mumble or have food in your mouth or articulate with clear dulcet tones, or your from Mississippi or from Brooklyn N.Y. or Texas