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This is a journey through the languages along the bumpy road of expression and spelling with the English-saving discoveries of Babel Babble. The inconsistency of spelling and pronunciation caused much irritation among the great authors. American English spelling reforms infuriated Mark Twain. Said it is the replacement of a mismatch with another. George Bernard Shaw referred to the reform of English in the U.S. and noted that U.S. and Britain are divided by a common language. Both called for rational alphabet.

When the British left the country, billboards on trains and at stops independent India bus proclaimed "Ongreji Hothao" ie, "Banish English". About a decade later the charts said: "To learn English and earn more." Now we want to see on the posters "Improving English alphabet and Save," save for Babel Babble.

English is considered the simplest of all European languages, mainly due to its simplified grammar. Similarly, the Bengali can be considered as the easiest of all the indigenous languages. In Bengali highlights the simplicity of English in general, have no gender, no plural form of nouns and adjectives, a millennium in Nalanda and Tamralipti two Bengali-speaking cities of ancient India. Roots in Sanskrit and Bengali Chinese made this organization strong and lucid. Cooperation and competition with Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Hindustani further strengthened. Then, Bengali and English are mutually benefited and matured deeply through 200 years of struggle and concordance in the vicinity of Calcutta, the capital of British India.

Bengali and other Indian languages noted also for his best scripts, based on Sanskrit - scientifically orderly and aurally sophisticated. In contrast with the Latin alphabet is weaker, phonetically less complete and well defined. Europe needs an alphabet like we have improved in India, particularly to justify English there. The letters phonetically advanced morphological India require improvements to stop worrying differences.

If we join hands to create an alphabet keyboard compatible with and based on the phonetic system of Sanskrit, with excellent adding a dash of nekudots Hebrew, we can achieve great right solution for both Europe and India. The rest of the world would, of course, also nonprofit, eliminating the need for interference and fiddling like diacritics Pin Yin or inflation.

A phonetic alphabet bring us blessings: There will be simple, pronunciations and meanings will be guided to continue. In other words, the script can fulfill its purpose.

About Author: Jyoti P. Chaudhuri was born in Sylhet, British India. He started to wander as a displaced person since the partition of India. Model School, Sylhet; Priyanath School, Dhaka; Belur Vidyamandir, Howrah; Presidency College, Calcutta and Benares Hindu University were the major stations of his studies. In Benares he was exposed to all major languages of India. During his post-doctoral work in German universities he was confronted with different European languages. Strolling with "stateless" status he worked with research and teaching academies of India, Europe, Middle East and U.S.A. All these and an engagement in the World Health Organisation enabled him to be at home across the languages. He has published about a hundred essays on Genetics, Cell-Biology and Popular Science. His unique perspectives on languages are chronicled in the exceptional narrative Gems of Human Heritage: Our Scripts, reflecting robust ideas to obtain ideal alphabets. For details read Gems of Human Heritage: Our Scripts - available from Sarat Book House, Kolkata (Calcutta), sarat@cal2.vsnl.net.in

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