tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post905398552876589679..comments2024-01-17T07:03:57.842+00:00Comments on The Mad Ranter: I can learn my ABCsFlipChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-20759374859908131142011-05-05T14:13:59.577+01:002011-05-05T14:13:59.577+01:00I dug up a video for it. Heh yeah it makes as much...I dug up a video for it. Heh yeah it makes as much sense to treat the alphabet as just one word as anything else.<br /><br />Imagine though we had an alphabet that matched the current sounds, but the shape of which was logical; say all the vowels represented by a circle with a dot, upwards line, right-hand line, downwards line, left-hand line; then all the consonants as a V with dot etc; < etc. ^ etc. > etc. that'd cover 25 of the letters. Learn the sounds with the shapes and the order makes more sense.<br /><br />Sure the orientation (clockwise) is arbitrary, but the pattern is logical forwards and backwards and malleable as it can be split into each OV<^> group or by every dot, line.<br /><br />But hey what you can expect from evolution :-)FlipChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-82950666398260491462011-05-04T12:12:18.138+01:002011-05-04T12:12:18.138+01:00I preferred a song by Big Bird on Sesame Street wh...I preferred a song by Big Bird on Sesame Street where you just sing the alphabet as if it were one word. It rocks. Pronounced something like;<br /><br />ABCaDEFGHIJaKaLMaNOPQueRSTUVWiXYZ<br /><br />Alphabetical order just works for filing, I agree there's no reason for it, it's just the way we've set the world up.<br /><br />Also a very useful technique for remembering the layout of a standard keyboard;<br /><br />QWERTYUIOP-ASDeFuGHuJaKaL-ZuXCuVuBuNuM<br /><br />Useful for pub quizzes and the like anyway!walkerno5noreply@blogger.com