Re: [Fwd: [raplinrie] It's A Very Good Day]

At 2:11 pm -0700 10/10/98, Robert J. Petry wrote:
........
>T e u gue de cde!
It is a very good day today.  [Note cataphoric use of 't']

>J js yce l Mote Bumotz d England.
I just received the Speedwords Dictionaries from England.

>Ai, yku y l 8 Mote stum m "appendix" &e.
Also, enclosed [preterite!] was the 8 Speedwords lessons with "appendix" &c.

[Er - shouldn't that be the perfect participle 'kud'? 'yku' doesn't seem to
make sense here.]

>So, nu w p edo fovy l 8 stum.
So, now we can start to promte the 8 lessons.

>D2 j r edo ze l bumot a cz qi yord g!
Monday I will start to send the dictionary to those who arranged them!

[Do you really mean 'yord', i.e. "ordered' = "arranged"? ]

>X v des ha u bumot, or l 8 stum, pl ri a j & ax f l if.
If you wish to have a dictionary, or the 8 lessons, please write to me &
ask for the information.


>Al l sue,
All the best

[snip]

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ORDER

The 1951 Speedwords dictionary gives only:
ord = (to) order, (to) arrange, set in order
bid = (to) order, (to) command, (to) tell

The meaning "to ask for something to be supplied" is not given, nor have I
been able to find it in "Dutton World Speedwords", "Supplement to Dutton
World Speedwords" or "Dutton Double-Speed Words Companion to Text-Book."
This seems strange since Dutton, quite rightly IMO, is usually very careful
to different the different meanings of English homophones.

Following the analogy of 'axnes' to denote "requisition", I suggest 'axfur'
for this meaning of "order".

>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>This, the only World Brief-Script in existence,
It may have been the only (potential) world briefscript when Dutton printed
it on the cover of the 3rd edition of "Dutton World Speedwords" in 1946,
but this is no longer so.  We now have at least (I'm sure there are others):

- Babm, the IAL proposed by Fuishiki Okamoto in 1962

- Iso, an offspring of Speedwords, which was promulgated by Brother Young
and the United Congress United Congress Publication in 1996

-and, of course, Skrintha's Lin which is certainly the briefest script I've
come across.  Cf.

Lin:           i5o m                             [5 characters]
Speedwords:    por kon e ib                      [12 characters]
English:       important agreement is possible   [31 characters]

I include the space(s) since every programmer knows they are characters
(ASCII 32) they do act as necessary delimiters in the respective languages.

[Possibly one ought to include 'Cyberyak' also as a (potential) world
briefscript, but it seems to me to rely a lot on compounds which make it
somewhat 'unbrief' ]

>breaks down all the present language barriers to free international
>correspondence between all countries.
.....as, of course, all conIALs claim  ;)

Ray.