SEEDS-2

Preface

The Mess of the Scripts

Development or deterioration of a language is not an issue; it is the number of the letters restricted to twenty six in English alphabet since about two centuries that is an issue as it disables English from owning the huge number of phonetics / pronunciations that come up in and around English since the English stepped out of England to colonize the world. The inability of a script to accommodate and do justice to the phonetics of the words of other languages has caused confusion in deciphering the history of mankind. It has done damage to the straight flow of historical facts, and has resulted in as many interpretations of facts as the available straight jackets of the scripts. Presently we are concerned with English and French, as there are the scripts that would matter for a long time to come.

What the linguists know as alphabet of a script is inadequate for the phonetics, the alphabet is to be enlarged to encompass all the phonetics, Library of Congress USA, like many other organizations, has its own code denomination of different phonetics, which requires the readers to have the code on his tips. How many English read people have that code on their [finger] tips? Almost zero percent! To know that code is to study scripts. This blockade of reading phonetics must be removed to break the monopoly of the academicians and teachers of the languages. There shouldn’t be any codes or systems of denoting different phonetics through different signs on the letters. That system is too complicated for typists and computer operators, besides having nothing to do with laymen like I.

An annexure given in the end of this book, includes in the English alphabet as many phonetics as I possibly could collect, using only the existing 26 English alphabets, and without any special technique of working on computers. These phonetic are in simple plain English letters available on every keyboard of computers and ages old typewriters. Till now, mine is the last word on this issue; the monopoly of the expert academicians must be broken. The fraudulent scholarly imposition must be undone.

A long way back, I had a chance meeting with a person from the Library of Congress USA. I listened to her insistence that there was no need for a new script or an extension or enlargement of the present 26 alphabets a working code of the Library of Congress was already doing the needful. She was too conceited about have the ‘Library of Congress code’ on her [finger] tips to heed to my suggestion of “an addition of some new alphabets’ to make the English language wholesome’; an attitude that called on me to give up English and take to that code instead!

PS. This text is published as found in the booklet published by Abdul Halim Brohi.