QUIKSCRIPT

QUIKSCRIPT is a simulation language derived from SIMSCRIPT, based on 20-GATE. It is a programming language for the 1960s Bendix G-20 computer.

Quikscript (also known as the Read Alphabet and Second Shaw) is a constructed alphabet intended to replace traditional English orthography. It is a revised version of the Shavian alphabet, designed to be written more quickly by hand than its predecessor and to be more universal. ==Origins and history== Read organized a lengthy public testing phase of Shavian by some 500 users from around the world who spoke different dialects of English. Once he had analyzed the results of those tests, Read decided to revise Shavian to incorporate a number of improvements to make it both easier and faster to write. He called the revised alphabet "Quikscript". In 1966, he published the Quikscript manual which set out the alphabet's rationale, and briefly discussed different possible methods of alphabet reform. The manual provides comprehensive instructions regarding the use of the alphabet along with reading samples. ==Description== Each Quikscript letter represents a single English phoneme. There are 25 consonants and 15 vowels, making 40 letters in all. The letters are designed to be written easily, each requiring only one (usually curved) pen stroke. Just as in the Roman alphabet, there are short letters (e.g. a, c, e, m, and n), written between the base writing line and the "upper parallel" (as Read calls it), tall letters (e.g. b, d, f, k, and t), which ascend above the top of the short letters, and deep letters (e.g. g, j, p and y), which descend below the base writing line. Quikscript, however, makes better use of these possibilities with 11 tall, 11 deep, and 18 short letters. All vowels have short letter shapes, and the most common phonemes have the simplest letter shapes. Similar-sounding phonemes have similar letter shapes, for example: Long vowels and glides are written with a larger bend or loop, while short vowels have a simpler shape. Every voiced consonant is written with a deep letter similar in shape to the corresponding voiceless consonant which is written with a tall letter. While the Roman alphabet has two distinct forms for each letter, designated minuscule and majuscule, most letters in Quikscript have only one form. Names and proper nouns are preceded with a mid-line "name-dot" (·) which is sufficient to distinguish them from ordinary words. ===Junior Quikscript=== Beginners learn Junior Quikscript first, which is much more similar to the Shavian alphabet. Each word is spelled "as it is spoken". Each letter is written separately from the next so that it is equivalent to what is termed "printing" in the Roman alphabet. Some people may prefer Junior Quikscript for printed texts as readers are used to the Roman alphabet being printed in that manner. ==Images== ==References in literature== Book two of the popular Cole's Funny Picture Books, published in Australia by E. W. Cole at the turn of the 20th century, was revised in 1979 to include an article introducing Quikscript under the name Second Shaw. ==See also== Featural writing system Pronunciation respelling ==References== ==External links== Quikscript Outpost Quikscript page at Omniglot.com Quikscript.net World English Bible in Quikscript – a work in progress to transcribe the World English Bible. Quikscript Cheat Sheet Quikscript message board at groups.io

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