02 JAN 2012 by ideonexus

 Herschel Compares Scientific Discovery to Columbus' Explo...

Herschel prophetically implied that electricity and electro-magnetism still hid many secrets, and that their investigation would become the leading science of the new age. This would indeed be Faraday’s coming field of triumph. He summarised (paragraph no. 376) this pursuit in the image of a great and noble sea voyage of exploration. ‘There is something in this which reminds us of the obstinate adherence of Columbus to his notion of the necessary existence of the New World; and the whole hist...
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Through analogies and parallels the scientists finds branches to connect fields of knowledge.

30 NOV -0001 by ideonexus

 The English Alphabet will Become Like Chinese as We Lose ...

i ui iu to knsider is Alfabet, and giv mi Instanses f st Ili Urds and Sunds az iu mee ink kannt perfektli bi eksprest bi it. i am persueeded it mee bi kmplited bi iur help. i greeter difiklti uil bi to bri it into ius. Huevr, if Amendments eer nevr atemted, and is kntinu to gro urs and urs, ee mst km to bi in a reted Kndin at last; st indiid i ink ur Alfabet and Riti lredi in; bt if ui go n az ui hev dn e fiu Senturiz lnger, ur urds uil graduali siis to ekspres Sunds, ee uil onli stand fr is,...
Folksonomies: phonetics
Folksonomies: phonetics
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If we fail to reform our spelling to maintain its phonetic value, words will become purely symbolic, like Chinese characters, no longer representing sounds and only communicating their semantic content.