How else can you explain alphabet 26?

Ah-yup!

I wonder if Bradbury Thompson's followers have more free time than color palm users?

Jared

There's also Shavian, a phonetic alphabet for English with 40 characters. It was commissioned by G.B. Shaw in his will and supposedly takes much less time to learn than the Roman alphabet, and is supposedly much more compact due to the lack of compound characters for sounds (like "ch" for "k").

THAT ALPHABET HAS THE ALL-CAPS PROBLEM. TEXT SET IN ALL CAPS IS HARD TO READ; WITHOUT ASCENDERS AND DESCENDERS, ALL WORDS HAVE THE SAME SHAPE. COMPARE THE SILHOUETTE OF "HAMBURGER" AND "hamburger". YOU GET THE PICTURE. WHEN EVERY WORD HAS THE SAME SILHOUETTE, YOU'VE GOT TO READ EVERY WORD INDIVIDUALLY. BUT YOU KNEW ALL THAT, RIGHT?

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