A Universal Alphabet. a Paper Read Before the Modern Language Association of America, December 29, 1904
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^ The efforts now being made in Japan and in France aiming at simplification in spelling, testify to the interest in the subject. In regard to the progress of the movement in France, see the article by Othon Guerlac, in the Nation, April 20, 1905, p. 307; "The Eeform of French Spelling." 12 to the same chaotic condition in which we are at present. And what is mostly to be deplored, this confusion discredits the science of phonetics itself The sounds of these much studied foreign languages are n...ot so radically different as to render impracticable their representation in one and the same phonetic system for popular scientific purposes. The usefulness of phonetic transcription the Joint Com- mittee report points out when it says: "Moreover, it is good practice for anyone to write a letter or transcribe a passage of literature in exact phonetic spelling. One learns in that way much that one did not know before."^ But if one has to learn four or five systems in learning as many languages, the results will be as at present with the dictionary keys, none will obtain sufficient recognition to prove its usefulness.
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