Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwoodcreative.com>]

>> there is no interest in society for fixing a broken system 1) because it 
>> isn’t broken enough to be unusable, so we limp along and 2) who would want 
>> a system devised by a second grade kid. 

There's no interest in a system devised by anybody. Bernard Shaw left the 
bulk of his estate to a charitable trust for promoting a rational English 
alphabet. The residuary legatees (the BM, RADA and the Dublin Royal Academy) 
challenged the bequest on technical grounds. An out-of-court settlement was 
reached which conceded the trust enough money to sponsor a design competition 
for a new alphabet; Penguin published a transcription of Androcles and the 
Lion using the winning design; and that was the end of that.

I might point out, by the way, that there's nothing wrong with the English 
alphabet; it's English orthography that's the problem. And even that is of 
some value to students of older dialects or of other Germanic languages.

Stoney Breyer
Writer/Touchwood Creative