Do you know the alphabet?
 

Recite it. Now.
What should we do with it? Explain your answers.

The interesting thing about the alphabet (any alphabet, really) is that we can use just a small set of characters to represent a huge range of sounds, and by combining them, almost any idea one can think of.

Compare this to Kanji, for example, and you can see that the alphabet is a great invention.

I'm voting 'yes.'

I disagree! I think we should use it to fashion blunt objects.
When people speak out in favor of the wrong things, we can bludgeon them with it.

or we could hook a bunch of letters together and make a chain out of it to tow stuff.

YOU GUYS ARE OBVOUSLILY WRONG.

Think of the children, why can't you think of the children?

Flint made baby Jesus cry.

What are children, if not lumps of mashed-up letters?
Your precious alphabet is sucking the life out of our children.

Flint makes everyone cry. ;)

So, babies are stuffed with alphabets, struggling to escape.

That explains the noise.

If you would follow the teachings in Da Book, you would know you are headed down the path to hell.

You are right. From now on my posts will contain no alphabets.

im in ur postz, stealin' ur alphabetz

SOUP!

WTLame? Really.

:lol:

Two Thumbs UP! Lumberjim!

(uh, make sure you keep the punctuation or that could sound really bad!)

A plan for the improvement of spelling in the English language
By Mark Twain
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For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x"— bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez —tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivili.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev alojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

I love Twain! :)

Waht the hlel is he talinkg aobut? Who craes aoubt sllepnig as lnog as you hvae all the lerttes?

Cicero, I love ya girl, but you too are not thinking of the children! :lol:

You guys are making me really hungry..............

What should we do with "the" alphabet? Make another letter to confuse everybody.....and not explain it or what it sounds like or does. There.

Yesterday, french fries. Today, alphabets. Shawnee's going to make someone eat their words.

Personally, I'm against the alphabet. It's chauvinistic and demeans women. i prefer a language based entirely on eye movements, creamed corn and lit torches.

I expect Baby Jesus hasn't STOPPED crying since Flint started using teh Internets.

I like to ask myslef "What Would Baby-Jesus Do?" ...and when I'm pretty sure he would cry, I know I'm on the right path.

I expect Jesus hasn't stopped crying since he was used as a tree decoration.

Geezy petes, why you wanna make me spit diet coke all over my desk?

We're talking BABY Jesus, though. He's a seperate entity from adult Jesus, father God, and Holy Ghost.

Ah.
I know what makes the Baby Jesus cry.
Ever see a 1st Century rectal thermometer?

Did it look like a fossilized walrus penis?

By it's very nature, the alphabet must dominate all the other bets or be outcast.

I blame Sesame Street.

This is my alphabet. QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM.

Same alphabet, different order?

Only if it's attached to fossilized priest...

That's a good one.

C is for Corn in your poop

humblejim, don't you sleep?

Now I am all confused.

And why is midnight midnight, when it's the divide between today and yesterday?

This thread is being held over for binding arbitration. That's right, I'm invoking the Vanna White clause! Vanna, pick me a letter.

I thank you all for coming. (Starts stacking papers and putting in briefcase.) I believe I have enough information to take back to Corporate. Here's my card. Call me if you remember anything else. And don't leave town.

I hear ya, Jesus. Sometimes I have to tell myself I made a funny too. :blush: But, you're always pretty darn funny.

i kinda like the turkish alphabet, the "C" with the line under it represents the English "CH" and the "S" with the line under it represents the English "S"

http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/socrates/...nt/tralpha.jpg

They have great baths, too.

oh yea the regular "C" makes and english "J" sound and the turkish "J" makes the french sound like in Jacques Cousteau

just make sure you go early in the morning...

Are you saying I stink? ;)

I like greek- there's no J's. I mean.....do we really need J and C's anyway?
Or Thai because of the informal common practice of not using verbs.
Person then adjective.
Cicero ba-ba-bah-bo!!!

lol no the baths are communial and the water gets dumped at the end of the day and refilled early in the morning.

Oh! Whew!

Then what does the s without the line under it represent?

Thank you for that info.

Yeah, I know the alphabet. Bastard was over last week, drank all my beer, and didn't so much as bring a bag of chips along.

I KNEW it! Damn alphabet...all like "I'm alpha, I don't have to care!" Next time wolf, kick it's lettery ass to the curb.

G
A
T
C
and don't forget x and y

I've spent the last seven months trying to kick the alphabet habit, but no luck. I did go to central Montana, up by the Canadian border, to a little schoolhouse that was originally built without any alphabet, by alphabet-free peoples, but which was later converted by the local women into something I can't print because people might read it.

I just read the record for typing the alphabet backward is 1.8 seconds.