Monday, July 30, 2007

Society and bees.

Spelling societies and bees are pitted against each other for reasons well supported by their separate philosophies or business sense.Spelling societies would always campaign against linguistic oddities made business; which is very obvious as they are raking in, and are way ahead in league by addressing Language confounding as business. Society would probably say that the bees are cashing on linguistic oddities, somehow by supporting the language barrier created with time which kept us apart; and driving us away from a uniform usage of script to support the core of the language—-something which made communication between different societies difficult.
The whole idea of swatting those umpteen numbers of spellings of seldom used words and the study of different ways different regions put letters together to spell sounds with English alphabetic script, is worth a prize money or if it is really some study.It might astound a few of us to see kids spell those big and difficult words just by getting an inkling of the origin of the words. And also might upset us to see kids occupying themselves and their brains in the pursuit of recognition.We may have the liberty to look askance at the whole event only till the time is proved to be an alternative therapy to cure Alzheimer’s; is actually a very good sport to keep your brain healthy.The whole concept as a sport where you have to wrack your brain to get ahead in the league is what I see of the event.And I personally feel that the societies do not wish to cast aspersions on such a coveted title for no strong enough reasons.
They want us to understand the Language better, a social cause. And may be that’s the reason why we could device a reliable reform in 100 years.If there is anybody who should be blamed, it has got to be only and only the society. The very inception of which is social responsibility. Why we could not device a reform when we have world’s best linguists as member? Or do I see business interests coming in the way of a good reform? I may be wrong, but when I see the member list I could not think of anything else. Or may be members are just members.What I personally feel is that the society failed to get to the wick of the problem. They centered it around only the native speakers. English is not just English it’s an amalgamation of different languages, different writing styles, and different sound probabilities.We have to broaden the scope of spelling reform; it should target every possible region in the world. Till the time we don’t think global working on spelling reforms would be a lost cause.
People will not learn by themselves and even if they do they definitely won’t learn alike. Do we see any benefit in keeping it experimental? Language is language, not science. Even if it was science we cannot fiddle with it.Java is a computer language; we cannot mix two scripts on the pretext of developing a program; we invent applications in a language and that’s it. We develop applications separately in different scripts, we don’t mix two scripts. Even if we do, we use an application to help us relate two languages. But we’ve made English language a potpourri of different scripting styles from all over the world.Think of yourself as a computer for a while. You see a written word, you process it and you read it. A written word is a command for your brain and you are programmed to read it as defined by a particular language; you might read a word right with C++, but what if Java doesn’t support the coding.It is not that complicated. You may be under the influence of two scripting styles and till the time difference is not well-defined you will be confused or confuse.
The best way to campaign against bees is to get your act together and device a reform first. Develop language software which has no room for errors so that every brain performs a specific function; understand coding in a particular fashion; read command a specific way to perform a specific function. Minimize the room for probabilities by codifying the script.

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