TO PATCH UP / FILL OUT:
– Add Donwill’s interview, Railroad writing, AJ Ellis, Phonotype, telegraphese, Ham Radio operators, Plain Language, improve noah webster, esperanto, mention Franklin’s proposal name, more about anti-absurd alphabet , add McWhorter’s finger writing, add Webster’s correspondence with George Washington, longer chapter about ITA, deliberately spelling things wrong for engagement online, erika and how ppl sext
– NOTE: as i read the MS straight through, i notice a feeling of jumping through the eras too quickly. To counter this feeling, I should occasionally jump back to discussions of Noah Webster and Benjamin Franklin.
– NOTE #2: the first reform proposals of the 1500s shouldnt have their own headed sections. Too boring that way. Weave into galloping flowing prose.
– to add to final section about texting: Does texting help kids spell?: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/txt-msgs-kidz-spell/story?id=12800449
– NEW IDEA: italic present-tense one-paragraph anecdotes scattered throughout the book
CUT OUT:
– silly pop culture references (like Borat, She’s All That). It dumbs the whole thing down.
PUBLICITY:
– “if you take one thing away from this show, i hope it’s a t shirt, we’re selling them at the door.”
– Title for article: “we dont need grammar police. We need grammar philosophers.”
– “Thanks to nytimes and samcorbin for making me sound smart!”
FIRST WAVE (1700s)
– Noah Webster and Benjamin Franklin
SECOND WAVE (1800s)
– Progressivism, Deseret, Phunny Phellows post-Webster reforms
THIRD WAVE (1900s)
– Teddy Roosevelt, Simplified Spelling Board, Twain, Chicago Tribune, 1920s ads
FOURTH WAVE
– Pop culture, music, social media, textspeak,
– Literacy in schools etc. data, numbers. Are the SATs graded on spelling?
MY OPINIONS
– I believe we should allow a freespelling approach. Everyone should spell the way they want
MORE TO ADD ON SHORTHAND:
– Pitman’s brother Benjamin Pitman settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States and introduced Pitman’s system there. He used it in the 1865–67 trial of the conspirators behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Australia the system was introduced by another Pitman brother, Jacob. Jacob Pitman is buried in Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney. His epitaph is written phonetically:[4]
IN LUVING MEMERI OV JACOB PITMAN, BORN 28th NOV. 1810 AT TROWBRIDGE ENGLAND, SETELD IN ADELAIDE 1838, DEID 12TH MARCH 1890. ARKITEKT, INTRODIUST FONETIK SHORTHAND AND WOZ THE FERST MINISTER IN THEEZ KOLONIZ OV THE DOKTRINZ OV THE SEKOND OR NIU KRISTIAN CHURCH WHICH AKNOLEJEZ THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN HIZ DEVEIN HIUMANITI AZ THE KREATER OV THE YUNIVERS, THE REDEEMER AND REJENERATER OV MEN