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One of these days you'll explode |
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Can you read text that is written consistently rather than traditionally? There is more than one way to write alphabetically or consistently. There have been thousands of consistent alphabetic codes proposed for English. Many, such as the ones proposed by Ben Franklin or G.B. Shaw, require new characters. There are at least 40 sounds in English speech - requiring 40 symbols. A common practice is to combine two characters to create a new symbol. For AEIOU New Spelling uses the digraphs: ae, ee, ie, oe, ue. Unigraf avoides digraphs by using the uppers case majuscules AEYOU. Anything written in a phonemic or consistent code will look odd. The goal is to choose correspondences that can be read .without a key trY tU rEd x teXt in x left kolM |
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qnd SWt tU ol x kidz wY dOnt U just grO up qnd akt Ur Aj qnd xA wil qr, U gYz get
WtsYd
qnd xA dOnt Ul strAtN xer
bedrVmz
nW Y wqnt it tV stA xis wA!" qnd it wil... |
and shout to all the kids, "Why don't you just grow up and act your age!" And they will... Or,
"You guys get outside
And they don't. You'll
straighten their bedrooms
And it will... |
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with q salad xat haznt had ol x qlivz pikt Wt qnd @ kAk wiT nO finGR trAsez in x YsinG qnd Ul sA nW xis iz @ mEl fqr kumpqnI." |
with a salad that hasn't had all the olives picked out and a cake with no finger traces in the icing and you'll say, "Now this is a meal for company." And you will eat it alone... You'll
yell,
And no one will answer. No
more plastic tablecloths stained
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nO bAbisitRz for nU yirz Ev wqSinG klOz onlE wNs @ wEk nO PTA mEtinGz or silE SkVl plAz wer Ur cYld i |
no babysitters for New Years Eve, washing clothes only once a week, no PTA meetings or silly school plays where your child is a tree, no car pools, blaring stereos or forgotten lunch money. No
more Christmas presents made
Only
a voice asking,
And the silence echoes: "I did" |