Familiar images in fonetic spelling
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/life-mag-sa.html

kingz, kweenz, emperorz,..dayvid casidi teenlands hartthrob - britunz join!
kiGz, kwEnz, empRorz,...dAvid k@sidY tEnl@ndz hqrtTrob - britanz jQn!
[above] two phonemic ASCII notations,  [below] non-roman Shavian notation as shown in magazine cover and poster
kiNz, kwInz, empDPz,... dEvid kAsidI tInlAndz hRtTrob - britanz Jqn!

According to Twain and Shaw, fonemic spelling in an unfamiliar non-roman notation
would be less offensive and disturbing than reading non-standard word spellings in ascii.
How could this be tested?

Certainly Greek, Arabic, or Shavian transcriptions do not offend.
However, for most they are also difficult to decode, read and interpret.
The roman phonemic word spellings may offend but they can be used to communicate.

Given a choice, TO readers would prefer
  • surplus cut spelling to an ascii fonetic notation, and
  • ascii fonetic to a non-roman notation.
After learning a fonetic code, however, they might prefer it to a chaotic code.
The popularization of the Shaw alphabet would communincate one idea -
changing the orthography or spelling system
does not alter the way we speak.

What if we only changed only the 18 or so phonograms that appear as caps in Unigraf?
kiNz, kwInz, empDPz,...dEvid kAsidY tInlAndz hRtTrob - britAnz jqn!
Is an augmented alphabet (with new shapes) any less offensive than a phonascii (caps & digraphs)?

The conversion from a unigrafic notations such as Unigr@f is simple and direct, just change the font.
Download a Shaw alphabet font  - lionspaw font used above
 

The idea for this page was inspired by Simon Barne who also supplied the graphics
source page: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9008/
site includes a CocaCola trademark and cartoons in shavian

Shaw Alphabet Vowels
Shaw Alfabet Phonograms including consonants - vowels shown below:
Map IPA - A variety of alternative phonetic spellings mapped to IPA notation
http://www.egroups.com/group/shavian        mail:  shavian@egroup.com
 perlscript phonetic Converter  http://morph.ldc.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/sb/orthography/convert.cgi