Why Cursive?
We are taught to write in print when we first start school. Then the teachers mess everything up and make us relearn to write by writing cursive. What is the point of this? To increase the speed of our writing? I'll tell you what it increases--the messiness of our writing. Sure it looks pretty when you learn it and get the hang of writing it, but once you get older, you grow tired of writing every letter so perfectly. It becomes sloppy. Illegible. I'm sure you've seen the signatures of some people. You can't even read it.
The way I write is I combine cursive and print. I do whatever letter is more convenient. Some letters take more time in cursive than in print; some are faster in print. But the fastest way is to combine them. I'm not saying that everyone should write like I do; I'm just saying that tis wrong for elementary school teachers to force children to redo their writing and learn cursive. The teachers claim (at least mine did) that we would have to write cursive for every paper in middle school and high school. But I'm finished with high school, and not one teacher has required me to write in cursive. Tis a waste of time to relearn how to write. Either teach cursive from the start, or don't teach it all!
The whole English language is messed up. Vote for me, and I'll change all that. >:-J
Someone asked how my language would be, so I guess I'll tell you guys. No one else will probably care. . . .
Okay, I would just have a combination between cursive and print, whatever is easier or faster. That's if you're writing in the Romanic alphabet. My alphabet is adapted from the ancient alphabet used by the Semites (lived in Syria and Palestine), which came after the Egyptian alphabet. (Some letters I use came from Greek, but not many.) I was inspired to create my own alphabet by being so ticked off with the English one. Almost nothing in English is spelled exactly how it sounds, and some letters have more than one sound or aren't needed. C's steal the sound of K and S; C has no sound of its own, so tisn't needed. S is used a lot to sound like Z, which is wrong. Like the S in plural words--those should be Z's because they should like the Z, not the S. G's often sound like J's, and shouldn't. Q is just the same as "kw" so I don't see why a whole letter should be made for it. X's don't have a sound of their own. The vowels have all sorts of different sounds that makes the English language hard to learn and read. I made my alphabet with all this stuff in mind. I got ideas for the look of the letters by looking in the Encyclopedia and looking at the history of language/alphabet that is the first page in each book. Egyptians made the first alphabet, but theirs is too complicated, and I think writing should be a fast task, not take forever to make pretty pictures. The language of the Semites is a simplified version of the Egyptian language. My letters resemble those, but most are a bit different, depending on how the mouth says them. I also created some of my own letters like "sh", "ch", "ou", "ay", "oi", and others which are often used. And of course I omitted the useless letters like C, Q, and X.
This alphabet is good because each word is spelled exactly how it sounds. So there is no reason why anyone should misspell anything if they use my language!
I found this Xanga that has sounds how I would want to change the English language up to the third year. I never knew my ideal language was so German. I don't know. I don't like all those dots and stuff they put over the letters. Which is ironic, for reasons I won't go into, hehe.
My language will have a capitals system, but it will not be used for proper nouns as English has it. Capitals will look just like lowercases, just bigger. The capitals will be used for emphasized syllables in words. This is another thing which will make it easier for people to read/pronounce. Examples of English words spelled with capitals at the emphasized syllables:
STOmach
HUNGry
TASTy
JOLLy
RANCHers
SAILor
AWEsome
maMOru
Notice how switching the emphasized syllables can change the sound (and sometimes meaning) of the word:
HOTaru vs. hoTARu
hyPERboLE vs. HYPerbole
KILoMETers vs. kiloMEters
meTROPolis vs. METroPOLis
REbel vs. reBEL
REsuME vs. reSUME
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