₦airaland Forum

The purpose for inventing alphabets in the history of writing, was to record or represent the sounds of speech graphically for long distance and mass communication. So alphabets then are symbols of the vowels and consonants that make up speech and each letter is supposed to consistently represent a particular vowel or consonant as is the case with Latin, spanish, italian, Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo. But not so with English which derives most of its vocabulary by illogically respelling latin words and assigning pronunciations without following the one letter one sound principle.

For example in the latin saying: "Conlige suspectos semper habitos", The letters here carry the same sounds as in Yoruba, hausa or Igbo. But in the English translation: "round up the usual suspects", the letters don't correctly represent the appropriate speech sounds. Look at the words "usual" and "suspect", the letter u does not carry the same sound in both words, and why doesn't the word 'usual' have the consonant 'y' before it, if that speech sound is part of the word. It would be absurd for me to omit the letter 'y' from the word yoruba and still pronounce the sound 'y' in the word.

Look at these words respelled with reference to sound

about = abaut
sound = saund
English = Inglish
book = buk
school = skul
university = yunivesiti
home = hom
computer = kompiuta.
knowledge = nolej
understanding = ondastandin
bible = baibul
people = pipul

the above respellings are in compliance with the principles for inventing alphabets which is to record or represent speech sounds as radio does today realistically.

I think the english spelling system as a whole poses learning, creative imagination and communication difficulties, and we shouldn't have to wait around for the rest of the world to do something, before we recognize and solve a problem.

Albinism is God's way of introducing diversity into the human species and a baby does not have to be unhealthy in any way to be considered albino, it is simply a Latin word for white. From Noah's time until about the 1500s, world nations from East to West, comprised Negroes, Albinos and a mixture of both. The historical prejudice of the majority Negroes towards albinos who had been subjected to slavery is the root of racial rivalry and conflict which reached its high point circa 1600s with the subjugation of blacks and constriction to sub Saharan Africa in the global slave revolutions that ushered in the modern era, a new socio-cultural, economic, political and geographical order.