There's a better English alphabet.

Shavian Alphabet below ⬇️ And play War Thunder for FREE on PC, Xbox and PlayStation. Use my link https://playwt.link/robwords to download the game and get your exclusive bonus: multiple Premium Vehicles, Premium Account, an exclusive 3D decorator for your vehicles and much more. See you on the battlefield!

𐑐 Peep - 𐑑 Tot - 𐑒 Kick - 𐑓 Fee - 𐑔 THigh - 𐑕 So - 𐑖 Sure - 𐑗 CHurch - 𐑘 Yea - 𐑙 huNG
𐑚 Bib - 𐑛 Dead - 𐑜 Gag - 𐑝 Vow - 𐑞 THey - 𐑟 Zoo - 𐑠 meaSure - 𐑡 Judge - 𐑢 Woe - 𐑣 Ha-ha
𐑤 Loll - 𐑮 Roar - 𐑥 Mime - 𐑯 Nun - 𐑦 If - 𐑰 EAt - 𐑧 Egg - 𐑱 Age - 𐑨 Ash - 𐑲 Ice
𐑩 Ado - 𐑳 Up - 𐑪 On - 𐑴 OAk - 𐑫 wOOl - 𐑵 OOze - 𐑬 OUt - 𐑶 OIl - 𐑭 Ah - 𐑷 AWe
𐑸 ARe - 𐑹 OR - 𐑺 AIR - 𐑻 ERR - 𐑼 ARRay - 𐑽 EAR - 𐑾 IAn - 𐑿 YEW

If you want to ascertain how much more efficient Shavian is without doing statistics, run it through a text compression algorithm. The ratio of compression factors will tell you the minimum savings over English (minimum because compression algorithms might be tuned to existing language).

i think it’s better because i understood what it says on the thumbnail without ever seeing this alphabet

"inconsistent" he says. You don't even need to hear the accent to know that he's not a native English speaker. What he's talking about is what makes it so difficult for people to learn as a second language, but also what makes it so versatile and intuitive to someone who spent their formative years and on learning and practicing it. Once you understand how placing a particular letter in a particular spot in a particular word changes the sound of the other letters and thus the sound of the word, it becomes easier to use different combinations of letters than to memorize a larger alphabet. Also it makes you a better critical thinker by having to infer more from context. But, you know, haters gon' hate.

I know I'm way late replying to this, no idea why the algorithm sent me this video two years later, but I feel like everyone is missing something:

Would this be a useful tool for people learning English for the first time? Efficiency is nice and all, but if the Shavian alphabet was actually adopted, would it make English more accessible to non-native speakers?

Shaw may have been good with letters, but he was rubbish at maths. If you save 100% of your time, it now takes no time at all. What he meant was 50%. He was probably thinking it takes 100% more to use our current alphabet compared with Shavian, but that's not how maths works.

At first glance, Shavian to me looks like the Georgian alphabet)

𐑕𐑴 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑦𐑕 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯? And this is English? 𐑒𐑵𐑤.

𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑦𐑟 𐑝𐑺𐑰 𐑒𐑵𐑤!

But if pronounciation is encoded into alphabet, how will Rob and one anonymous Aussie - presumably its only users - be able to communicate? 🤔

The annoyance, and great loss, of past effort, by adopting the shavian alphabet and spelling, ahead of the traditional one, is, in no way at all any doubling or repetition of our past effort made to learn traditional spelling and writing. The greatest loss, by far, is all the literature and culture that we, after its adoption, soon will not be able to connect to. Most, by far, of our culture is in the language, especially including what has been set down in text.

You also have to learn the paired letters for the latin alphabet. Eg: th, ch, sh, etc.

I’ll tell it to you straight. The whole idea of Shavian is dumb and impractical. The concept behind recreating a new alphabet for a preexistent language with a functional alphabet is a terrible idea with no merit, even if it sought to correct flaws in our preexistent one. That’s not how language works.
It’s arrogant to even wonder if your own alphabet that you made up could replace the preexistent one, ever. Languages are lived in, and we don’t just rewrite alphabets and change the spelling of every damn word because one guy said he had a better way.

To be fully honest, this is a truly terrible idea. Imagining learning a new language simply because your old one went out of style. That’s not practical or better, it’s a problem.

You’re wrong, it’s not better. It’s just more. It’s not more efficient it’s just simply got more letters. That is not the same thing as being better. In fact, I’d argue the current alphabet is much better simply because we aren’t forced to learn a new alphabet, a more complicated alphabet, just to write and read the Shavian one. Ours is better simply because it works for us. Yours is worse because it isn’t practical that we all learn it just to switch: it’s a worser option right now by far.

𐑕𐑴… ·𐑨 𐑯 ·𐑭 𐑥𐑱𐑒 𐑞 𐑕𐑱𐑥 𐑕𐑬𐑯𐑛?

𐑕𐑒𐑲