[shavian] Shavian Alphabet and Ghostworld

[paul vandenbrink]

Hi Scott
Andorra sounds like a nice place, a minature Switzerland.
I heard about Catalan from the forum at www.antimoon.com.
A old Romance Language closer to french than Spanish, that the 
people in Barcelona like to speak and with a decent spelling system 
too.

Anyway as for Enid of Ghostworld. I liked her right off the bat. 
I thought she was funny, although I could see how her friend saw her 
as hopeless. I didn't know what to make of the ending at first, but 
upon reflection I realized it symbolized her rejection of the value 
system of her world and her willingness to goes off to uncertain 
future and another
place, to avoid being compelled to be a Loser. She re-invents her 
world and puts in a little magic in to it, in terms of the Bus.
Personally, I do consider Enid's non-conformity to be disfunctional 
in the Job Market, as she just couldn't imagine herself 
subordinating her opinions to keep a job. And she acted on her 
belief. 
Discretion may be the better part of valour, but not in Enid's world.
Normally, you would call such a person an idealist, but it wasn't 
ideas, but the lack of pretense that seemed to be her main stock in 
trade.
But I wouldn't call her Disfunctional or even eccentric in the other 
aspects of her life.  
Unsuccessful is a better term than Dysfunctional.

Anyway back to Shavian.
An interest in providing people with a useful Mental tool, such as 
the Shavian alphabet can not be considered to be a sign of being 
Dysfunctional
or eccentric.
To give this knowledge about Shavian, free of charge is both 
philantrophic, beneficial and interesting. 

A simplified alphabet, that allows people illiterate in standard 
written English to read and write English with much less effort has 
many practical benefits.
 
There is also a long term benefit that without some standardization 
or rationalization of English Spelling, English writing will have 
less and less correspondence with the spoken language. And the 
situation, if not ameliorated with a new alphabet or some other 
technology, would result in English eventually splintering off like 
Latin into plethora of un-romantic Languages. Every city can have 
its own variety of English, as in the major centers of England.

Plethora as in a condition characterized by an excess of blood and 
marked by turgescence and a florid complexion. Over-abundance of 
varieties. A Cancerous uncontrolled growth of undifferentiated 
tissue.

At this point in time, English is a still very useful language to 
know.
A good part of the World's current knowledge is deseminated through 
standard English. The ability to read and otherwise communicate in 
english is necessary in many parts of the world.

Regards, Paul V.


--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Interesting interpretation.  I saw Ghost World by accident almost.  
> During one of Paris' week of 1 euro movies I went to a bunch of 
films 
> back-to-back and it so happened that Ghost World fit into one of 
my 
> timeslots.  I had never heard of it, but decided to watch.  I did 
not 
> really enjoy the movie because of the character Enid.  However, if 
you 
> are saying that her non-conformity is how the movie relates to 
Shavian, 
> I would be a little scared because I would not normally like to 
> consider myself to be as dysfunctional as Enid.
> 
> -- 
> Scott Harrison                PGP Key ID: 0x0f0b5b86



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