First & foremost I'd like to thank Steve Bett for establishing & operating the best internet spelling reform discussion forum I can imagine. He has been tirelessly (DUZ HE eVR SLEP ?) and patiently participating in the discussionz since the mid Jurrassic period. Anybody who haz slapped together a 'save the world' spelling system shoud join the forum & subject it to the merciless criticizm uv the other participants BEFORE they spend a decade riting a dictionary.
You will find a mountain uv info on spelling reform here & links to pretty much every reform related site there iz.
JOE LITTLE is the only paid professional spelling reformer for English on Earth. He has been very receptive to my ideas and the materials I recieved from the American Literacy Council have been very valuable in forming a workable introduction strategy.
The biggest single project was the creation uv the NQaLF PIKsRZ , a document that can actually allow the target audience to learn the Nooalf system. I credit Steve Roth with goading me into abandoning the bland flyerz I had been passing around and making something that people will really pay attention to. Thanks to Tim Jarret, Jean & Robert Gaczol, Joe Little and Di Carney for picture ideaz & general criticizm. Book model iz Teresa. Hand model iz Stacy Worklin. Ugly model iz me, JO 753.
Spanish tranzlationz for this site & the CDROM are courtesy uv Alfredo Sanchez, Juan Gutierrez & Armando Briseño.
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Chinese for this site & the CDROM were done by the venerable Yongbiao Zhang .
Swahili by Martin Mirimo.
Russian by Nana Mee.
Polish & German by Agnieszka Skoczypiec.
Arabic by M. Allaf
French by Katy Mangin
Portuguese by Katie Santos
Italian by Alessandra Diagne
Korean by Kwan Shik Kim
Esperanto by Roel Haveman
I thank the people at maranGraphics and IDG Books for their fantastic "Creating Web Pages with html Simplified 2nd edition" which allowed me to do this site all by myself.
Special Nooalf fonts were made with Data Becker's excellent Your Handwriting software. The 2NQ4YQ font was refined & converted for Macs by the FONT GOD in Austrailia.
Adobe has been creating the foundation blocks of the software industry FOREVER ! Everything from the pictures that you plug into your eyes to the letters that pour into your brain . Unlike many companies that have near monopolies on a market, they take the time to make their products work with az few hasslez & glitchez az possible. All the grafiks on this site were made with Adobe Fotoshop Elements.
The people most sorely affected by our egregious orthography are those among us who have dyslexia. Because the condition iz often accompanied by a high level uv creativity, there are many notable figures thruout history who had it. Dyslexia - The Gift iz the website of Davis Dyslexia Association International, an organization dedicated to helping dyslexics adapt & excel.This site iz chok full uv info & resourcez for dyslexics.
Many people are working on reforming English spelling. Its such an eazy target that most of them started out the same way I did; with the realization that a monkey coud make a better spelling system than the wun we are uzing now. Wyrdplay.org Haz an extensive list uv English spelling reform websites. If you hav read this far, its likely you are truly interested in the subject and may be having your own ideaz about making a system. Only by seeing the variety and quality uv wuts already out there can you avoid doing alot uv work that sumwun else haz already dun.
Here are sum interesting sites that are generally connected to spelling, literacy or language in general
The biggest newz that nobodyz talking about iz the fact that English iz taking over the world. There are now at least twice as many non-native userz az nativez. The people that need andor want to learn English struggle endlessly with its many peculiaritiez. Josef Essberger created EnglishClub.com to help students find their way thru this convoluted kaos.
The Future Global Language website lets you vote for a global language. Pick any language you like, its completely unrestricted !
Omniglot.com has an extensive list of all sorts of spelling systems for other languages, alternative ideas and even alien languages from TV & movies such as Klingon .
Amazon.com: Books: The Story of English, New and Revised Edition This is an excellent book for anybody who wants to know how this mess happened. Its not too thick, yet gives as much detail as you are likely to want.
Children of the Code is a project of PBS that details the dismal state of American literacy and our failing primary educational system.
BabelFish Translator on AltaVista does an amazing job of translating English to and from a bunch of different languages.
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