Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-21


worse than scholars in the grades, the
systems taught in the school are so
erroneous IN form ana execution that
the longer scholars SO write the worse
they write. This shows that Roman
script also. is not correctly UNDER
stood
t8) n English is to become the
world language, it is necessary that
the vast accumulated English litera-
ure be handed down TO postcrity in
readable form that is, the future
spelling must be changed as little as
possible from the present spelling
But the investigation shows that the
whitney system. the Spelling Re
form association system, and the sys-
tenn of the joint committee of the
American Philological, the National
Educational and the Modern Lam
guage associations. made some twenty
luncalled for changes and thereby so
changed the spelling as to retain only
twenty words out of 100 unchanged
and SO as to make the rendering look
like a foreign language, The adyo-
Gates Of such spelling reform systems
did not therefore consider and did
not understand the office of the Eng
.lish language i'm the matter
90 The universal alphabet must
contain a letter for each of the forty
three different speech-sounds in the
human voice: It's script letters must
be movementally correct and of Ro-
man script style and as English is
destined to become the world lam
guage, such alphabet must retain the
present spelling as far as possible so
as to preserve as has been stated, the
vast accumulated English literature to
p0steritv In readable form. But Mr.
Luthv shows that each of the univer-
sal alphabets i'm the Congressional liz
brary CHE third largest library i'm the
world, either omits sounds, confuses
sounds. adds spurious sounds. or errs
in several or all of the ways and
shows that not one of said ulphabets
considers the principles Of the script
letters. nor of the office of English
as the coming world language such
arbitrarily devised alphabets are,
therefore not adapted to the situation
and they show that the essential prin-
lciples which underlie the universal al
phabct were not considered by the
makers Of such alphabets, and We're
not understood
ON the other hand Mr. Luthy's in.
yestigation has accomplished as fol-
lows
ca He has traced the solution Of
the fundamental speech sounds, both
yowels and consonants through an
their series, classes, kinds and forms,
to the limit Of audible distinction; he
has established that there are only
forty-three different speech sounds in
the human voice lin the worlds 3.424
languages. -and that the forty-three
have varied into ninety-three differ
ent forms, he describes the original
formation of every sound; he estab-
fishes their physiologically correct
recommendations and he eNcmplifies
the forty-thrce sounds in all their
lninety-thrce different forms.
CD In analyzing Roman script, Mr.
Luthy has discovered and established
the naturally correct slant, he has re-
duced ever letter to geometric form In
conformity with such slant, and he
/ has reduced form and execution to an
Intelligent system OF principles This
/ is fully confirmed by the report on
this work by the bureau Of engraving
lat Washington Analytic, geometric
/ diagrams Of letters exhibited by Mi
lLuthy To the journal are marvels Of
beauty and are a revelation in that
they show at "a glance an underlying,
/ intelligent system of curves. lines and
principles hitherto unthought Of
90 Mr. Luthy shows that to pre-
lserve the present spelling TO the great
lest degree possible. every sound in
every word must continue to be repre-
scented by the same letter that now
most frequently represents such sound
I TO determine this. he analysed the
literal representations of the sounds in
geo words-5o0 each from ten au-
ithoritatlve sources. Then by incor.
poratine every advantage that the sit
Iuation offers viz, by retaining the
present. consonant diagraphs eh ng.
lsh, etc; by modifying each generic