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December 03, 2003

Alphabet26

This is either the silliest idea I've seen in awhile, or it's genius. I lean toward the former.

It is misleading for a letter, or for any graphic symbol, to have two different designs. Confusion might set in when school children are taught to recognize words even before they have learned to recognize different symbols for the same letter.

To remedy this, Alphabet 26, a plan based upon the logic of consistency, proposed that of the 19 letters that have dissimilar symbols 15 letters should use the uppercase designs and 4 letters should use the lowercase designs. The other 7 letters already have identical symbols.

[Read the whole thing... Click on "Introduction" at the top of the screen.]

Posted by jghiii at December 3, 2003 01:02 PM
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