<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am hoping that this generation of Tweeters will change the language
dramatically in the direction we are talking about. They are talking
about the disappearance of cursive writing and I too think that's good,
though some writing will be with us forever, I think. As soon as
programs like Dragon Speaking get really good, we will no longer use our
thumbs to write on our cell phones, and may move away from the keyboard
entirely, as who can type as fast as he can talk? And if AI gets as good
as some predict, we won't have to do a lot of editing when we speak
into a computer.<br><br>In some of my scifi books there is an AI drone who flies near his owner
and records everything, has offensive capabilities, GPS and everything
else we can imagine. Cool! Wouldn't everyone love such a sidekick?<br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I did download a Dvorak keyboard program and thought that if I were to practice it it would be significantly easier to use, but I did not follow up on that, as I am quite quick with this one.</div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:48 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 13, 2016 12:45 PM<span class=""><br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br></span><span class=""><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] need a new word/suffix<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black"></span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">re Shavian alphabet<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">The problem I see is just like what happened to Esperanto and the Dvorak keyboard: people spent a lot of time devising these and to no ultimate purpose. No big authority like the government adopted them. No schools taught them because nobody said they had to</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">…</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Esperanto failed because of insufficient benefit from previously acquired expertise. If on the other hand, we adopt a system whereby phonetic spellings and formerly standardized (dictionary) spellings were used, even in the same message, perhaps even with the same word spelled two different ways, then people who know the old way can use it, young people can use it, English learners can use it. It is accessible to all and benefits from the knowledge base already in place.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Esperanto is a good example of a system in which a lot of investment was made with little to show for it. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Klingon is another example. You hear it at Star Trek conventions (with some of the hardcore yahoos very fluent) but it never gained much traction: didn’t take advantage of existing language expertise.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Dvorak keyboards: everyone has the option of doing that. I saw a freeware package that Dvorakizes any keyboard with one CTRL Alt command. I don’t recall where to find that, but if it existed at one time, it is somewhere out there to be found still. The internet never forgets.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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