The vocabulary is a bloated hodgepodge of words with many definitions, bunches of words that mean the same thing and simple concepts without words. Then there's the whole root word fiasco. A great idea that's so inconsistently applied that only an encephalitic English professor on crack could take it seriously. Shampoo anybody? Incontinent? Or how about inflammable? Sheesh!

It only gets a little better at the sentence level. Native speakers have little trouble understanding each other, but a foriegner could memorize a dictionary and still get totally lost because common speech is chock full of phrases that make no sense from the component words. A major portion of our primary education is spent learning the many rules of grammer, punctuation, syntax, etcetera, yet most people can hardly put a coherent paragraph together. Is it because we're stupid, or is there something wrong with the system? It's a miracle any of us are able to think straight with such a tangled mass integrated into our thought processes.

To be fair, these faults are common in most languages. Where English really excels in egregiosity is the spelling; the very material from which the written language is constructed. The obvious logic of basing the spelling on the pronunciation has been disregarded along with any notions of order and efficiency. What we have is not a true system, but rather a collection of semi-random letter combinations.

If English were only used in one or two small backwater countries none of this would matter. But since it has ridden the coat tails of England and America's military, technological and artistic dominance to become the defacto international language, it's gross defects are of global concern. A rough estimate based on just the educational and barnacle letter costs puts it well over 100 billion dollars per year. Add to this the time wasted on 'how do you spell ...' dictionary visits, forests worth of paper thrown away due to typos, and the incalculable cost of illiteracy and you will begin to realize that we have a serious problem here.

Squandering our time and resources to perpetuate what amounts to a quaint tradition has got to stop.

The Nooalf Revolution is here.

Nooalf is a 100% phonetic English-based international spelling system. There are no rules besides 1 letter = 1 sound, so children and foriegners can learn it in a month. Since most of the letters are the same as regular English, you can already read it with a little effort, and will be able to write it after a brief study.

Regular English spelling persists only through the continuous efforts of everybody who uses it. Replacing it is simply a matter of ending the support. Nooalf will then displace it as easily as dandylions overrunning an untended garden of sickly ferns. Nature favors hardy, efficient, powerful and versatile species over delicate energy hogs. So Rather than being another big government boondogle, the change will occur through the force of natural selection.

In addition to fixing the spelling, the biggest potential benefit is that future generations will have a better chance of growing up without the unquestioning acceptance of nonsense that pervades today's society. When the public expects logic from their leaders and rejects laws based only on authority, ignorance, greed, corruption and fear will no longer hinder our progress.

The chart on the next page is all you need to learn the system. The pages beyond that cover details of it's logic, a closer look at the benefits, why it's needed and how it will replace traditional spelling. So whether you're here to join the Revolution, skeptical that such a big change could be accomplished or angry that someone is messing with your beloved tradition, click the big arrow and see the future.

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