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What is needed is sincerity and passion; knowledge yes, but not as important as passion and sincerity. But it all depends on what the community is; hard to explain....I mean, Count, I would immediately disqualify you if you founded a community on meat products, make up and food. Sorry, dude, I am not going to join any community with you as the founder if you had meat or make up in the community, you're vegan LOL! Also, no offense, I don't think I want you founding a community about sports, since I've never seen you talk about any sport. I'll join you if you want to start one about skunk spray and waffles LMAO! Sorry about the jokes, I couldn't put together a good example.
What it is, it is great to have knowledge about something so you can talk to your members. Why start something if you don't know anything about or not passionate about? What would be your goal..to look great? You have to do one you really care and confident about; as well as letting your members know you care. Of course there are exceptions, but for some folks, who take their reviews and thoughts seriously, they'd like to have a good founder who shares the same passion....otherwise what would be the point? A founder has to be able to converse, and share with his members sincerely and to make them feel welcome. I think that is a community founders job...to make his members' thoughts matter.
Yes, it needs some knowledge or passion....I love movies but I don't know everything about them; I do see myself as knowledgeable on some areas of movies especially certain genres and Asian Cinema, but not all-knowing. I know about anime, but others have shown more knowledge than me (Frank and Jay just to name two), but I share that passion and drive to share. However, you won't see me starting a competition for "Culture of Cute" (I mean I am not cute), or start one about restaurants since I wouldn't know a great restaurant from a good one or Star Trek (I am only a casual fan of STNG) or classical music or to be vegan....but I am part-vegetarian...since I am not that passionate or that knowledgeable about them.
As for relying on members to drive a community...you can only show the way. It is up to them to walk through. A founder also needs to trust and be flexible to what his members want in the community...as long as it stays within the foundations and principle the founder had created. A founder needs to set the example and show his passion through his own reviews....
Hope that helps...I think this question is somewhat related...one needs to gain trust, to trust and to do so, you have to care about the community and your membership...
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I actually don't think the knowledge is as important as passion. I'll try to keep this answer brief but I make no promises.
It is certainly important a for a community founder to have some knowledge, on the other hand, he or she is going to display it the manner that the members generally will... by posting reviews, comments, quick tips etc. in the community. In short, it pretty much takes the effort of the founder and the members to demonstrate the knowledge of a community as a whole. I say this because how much knowledge you have of a particular subject doesn't actually play a major role into creating the community. And sometimes displaying too much knowledge is more alienating than it is inviting.
Let us say that a new member joins who doesn't have quite as much knowledge and the founder comes onto the page and instead of greeting him comments on the review going on and on and on and on about how the new member is wrong in his assertions or something along those lines. You have no effectively discouraged a new member from wanting to be part of that community. No one really likes it when someone gets on their high horse to demonstrate the vast amounts of knowledge they have. On the internet especially you come off as arrogant more so than smart. And in other cases you might come off as condescending.
Likewise, being "extremely" knowledgeable in some communities is damn near impossible. Let's take a look at the Cafe Libri community. It encompasses ALL of literature into one community. It's got thousands of members all bringing their own different opinions and observations to the table about tens of thousands of various books. Consider just how broad the subject which Cafe Libri deals with is. No matter how much knowledge ANY of Cafe Libri's members have about the subject of literature, there will be a lot MORE knowledge which they lack. And this is primarily because Literature has such a broad history behind it as it is. There are too many theories, philosophies etc. within literature and far too many different ideas. And while knowledge OF those ideas can certainly help out... what good would demonstrating them to the wide range of members be? Especially considering how many members there are.
But just the same it's also about the application of that knowledge. I know A LOT about video games. I've been studying, researching and experimenting in the realm my entire life. But a great deal of that knowledge won't help The Gaming Hub as a community. Because much like Cafe Libri the subject is just too broad (not to mention an entirely different beast). But I'm also willing to bet several of the members could contribute in ways I never actually thought possible.
And let's be very honest here. If you've got passion about something you've definitely got knowledge. Sometimes more than you think. But also consider that part of the reason the members who join the community do is because they might also share that same passion. I guess my point is that we're looking at a situation where it takes a village. It's important for the founder to have knowledge without a doubt, but if he lacks the ability to figure how much to apply (surprise it's not much) then it's not really that beneficial to the founder or the members of the community.
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It is not important for community founders to be extremely knowledgeable about the subjects and topics their community is based on. The reason behind this is because a Lunch community is whatever the founder wants it to be. It can be a place to discover new areas about life thanks to the collective contributions of the members, or it can be a place where experts come together to discuss areas they are passionate about. It can be fun and senseless or with purpose and deep personal significance. Lunch communities are broad, and that is part of their appeal to new members of the site. Taking that away by suggesting that all founders be "experts" on the subjects they base their communities on would defeat the whole purpose of Lunch-- which is the free exchange of dialog among all types of individuals. Instead, we would have a site of elite thinkers, or at least people who think they are elite.
As for whether a community founder should rely on its community members for knowledge versus whether they should provide that service to community members is again another matter of choice. Founders can engage with their members as much or as little as they desire and vice-versa. I've seen many communities which are just homes for posting reviews whereas other communities really engage the members to interact with each other socially. It's a matter of preference, and the lack of initial knowledge means very little. What is most important is the dialog between individuals.
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I posted this answer a few hours ago and have now no idea where. Here's another try, this time, I think, in the right place. How important for a community founder/leader "to be extremely knowledgeable…etc" Not very. Too much knowledge and passion can easily slide into what can seem like know-it-allness. The point of a founder/leader is to consistently encourage dialogue, sharing knowledge and opinion, and a sense of being colleagues within the community. For me, that means a temperament that naturally draws others out with well-thought questions (not just compliments) about most people's reviews. "You didn't mention so-and-so's performance. I thought it was unusually intense. What do you think?" "How does this compare with so and so," "Are there other films by so and so you recommend?" Tell me more about this, etc" Then comes a wide -- even if not deep -- interest in the subject (e.g. movies, music and so on), plus curiosity and enthusiasm. Challenge occasionally with a "I don't see that/I don't agree…tell me more." Not argumentative, but out of interest and curiosity. I think it also means that the founder/leader, in order to encourage dialogue, may need to moderate his or her own strong opinions (if they come across as too strong) in order the let others breathe a bit when they're posting on a subject that they may not know as much about. Should a community founder/leader rely on community members for this knowledge or be readily available to provide this to them? Seems to me the community founder/leader encourages as noted above, and the sharing of knowledge and opinion will be productive. The more members discuss and gently debate, the more we all learn. So that, for me, is job one. I don't really know what "readily available…to provide it" means, but the site should be about sharing, not teaching. All this is just opinion, and most of this most appropriately applies to subjective topics, like movies and such, and less so to wrenches or wenches (see London's escort services). Oops. I just noticed this is a community for community founders.
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We obviously need some knowledge to start. But if it is a successful community, we will get in a large number of contributors with their own ideas. Additionally, some of the communities are based on the individual contributor's opinions (ex. My own community "Politics Your Way"). The Founder just needs to be knowledgable enough to determine if everything that is posted within their community is appropriate for their community.
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[Simplified Spelling Society Newsletter Autumn 1985 pp18-24. Later designated Journal 1]
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Cut Spelling as a First-Stage Reform.
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[Christopher Upward lectures in the Modern Languages Department at Aston University, Birmingham, and is on the Society's working party revising New Spelling, as well as being editor of the Newsletter.]
Abstract.Spelling reformers must consider the practical implications of reform. Total reform without stages would risk undermining literacy, and, to avoid this, two criteria for a first stage are proposed: 1) it must be easily readable by adults without instruction; 2) children who are taught the first stage must be able to read t.o. To ensure these criteria are met, ease of reading must have priority over ease of writing, and the disruptive visual impact of changes must be minimized. Types of reform are then analysed for their visual impact, and finally, Cut Spelling is claimed by its nature to satisfy the above requirements uniquely well, and is introduced with accompanying exercises.
1.1 Overall Strategy.To introduce a reformed orthography for English implies several major planning stages. Firstly, orthographers would need to propose an attractive, practical scheme and get it accepted. Secondly, there would need to be international co-ordination, at least by the English-speaking countries, or perhaps through the U.N., to ensure a single world standard for written English. Thirdly, each government would need to plan implementation of the reform in its own country. This article is however only concerned with the first part of the first of these major stages: the design of a reformed orthography.
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1.3. Orthographic Stages.Some reformers earlier this century concerned themselves exclusively with designing what they hoped was a complete, coherent orthographic system, but gave little thought to the impact of its sudden introduction to a society already inured to a very different system. More recently the awareness has spread that reform must be introduced gradually, to ensure a smooth transition, but a full programme of suitable orthographic stages has yet to be devised. This paper attempts to establish some criteria for devising such a programme and then proposes Cut Spelling as a specific, far-reaching first stage that accords with these criteria. But to begin with we need to examine more closely why stages are needed at all.
2.1 Reform without Stages?Two kinds of reform without stages are conceivable: one would tinker with details, without regard to any overall master-plan; and the other would aim at systematic wholesale restructuring of the orthography
2.2 Unplanned tinkering.English spelling could of course be improved by just adapting some details, regularizing a phoneme here, rationalizing an outrageous spelling there. But the chances of achieving the supreme orthographic quality of consistency by this method would be small. Almost certainly, opportunities for a profound rationalization would be missed, and later changes might conflict with earlier ones. This is the criticism Axel Wijk made of the 1920 proposals of the American Simplified Spelling Board, though it is perhaps also ultimately the weakness of Wijk's own work, albeit on a much more scholarly level.
2.3 Systematic Reform without Stages.Could a comprehensive, systematic reform be introduced at a stroke, without stages? The Simplified Spelling Society's New Spelling is essentially such an attempt at the near-total regularization of English spelling, but its authors did not examine the likely effect of its introduction on different kinds of reader. Let us now do so.
2.4 Test-text for Reformed Orthographies.The following verse (with title) contains at least one example of each letter of the alphabet and each RP phoneme, and so demonstrates in concise fashion the visual effect of the orthography it uses. In t.o. it reads:
Fuzzy-opaque Orthographical Visions.
There was a poor boy couldn't spell
Half the words in our language too well.
His teachers thought: "Brain-sick!"
Mum and Dad hoped: "Dyslexic?"
Yet the child rashly jeered: "What the hell!"
2.5 New Spelling (NS) Transcription.
Transcribed into New Spelling (1948) the verse reads:
Fuzy-oepaek Orthografikal Vizhonz
Dhaer woz a puur boi koodnt spet
Haaf dhe wurdz in our langgwej tuu wel.
Hiz teecherz thaut: "Braen-sik!"
Mum and Dad hoept: "Disieksik?"
Yet dhe chield rashly jeerd: "Whot dhe hel!"
2.6 Criteria of Acceptability.How can we judge if a reformed orthography is suitable for immediate introduction? We must consider the pattern of literacy after reform, when children would be taught the new spelling in school, but most adults, especially the less well educated, would not have received formal instruction. So the first criterion of feasibility has to be: could all adults read the new system without instruction? But equally important is surely the criterion: can children who have only been taught the new orthography read t.o.? For obvious reasons, failure to meet either of these conditions could mean a serious breakdown of written communication in society.
2.7 Does NS meet these Criteria?Adults. Well-educated adults can struggle through an NS text, because (except for the digraphs DH/ZH/AE/UU) the sound-symbol correspondences are more or less familiar from t.o. and they are regular; and fluent reading would come with practice. Whether the less well-educated could or would master reading in NS must be more doubtful.
Children. More serious however is whether children educated in NS would still be able to read t.o. The irregularity of t.o. would present enormous difficulties to children who had been taught only the regular forms of NS (and to have to teach t.o. as well would defeat the object of the exercise), the letters Q and X would be unknown, and almost 70% of words (according to Wijk) would be spelled differently. Even simple words in the limerick like there/ was/ though/ hoped/ vision might prove obscure. NS thus appears not to meet the criteria for introduction proposed in paragraph 2.6.
3.1 Reform by Stages.Stages are needed, therefore, because any total reform will be visually so different from t.o. as to be incompatible with it from the reader's point of view. An idea for stages to overcome this problem is put forward in Harry Lindgren's Spelling Reform, A New Approach. His final system, Phonetic B, is even more remote from t.o. than NS is, and he suggests there should be some 50 small stages leading up to it. The need for stages here will appear inescapable from the transcription of the limerick.
3.2 Phonetic A/B Transcription.For lack of some of the diacritical characters used by Phonetic B, the following transcription also uses some forms from Harry Lindgren's intermediate system, Phonetic A, and is therefore somewhat less radical than full Phonetic B.
Fuzi-ôpék Orthografikl Vizhnz
Dher wz 'púr bó kudnt spel
Hàf dhwurdz in âr langgwj tû wel.
Hiz tìcrz thòt: "Brén-sik!"
Mum 'n Dad hôpt: "Disleksik?"
Yet dhcàld rashli jírd: "Wot dhhel!"
Without studying Fonetic A/B, even cryptologists might hesitate at this. It looks like a foreign language, uses apostrophe for shwa and diacritics instead of digraphs, spells vowels phonemically, merges articles with nouns, and only 4/33 words appear as in t.o. The system has great virtues, but could not be introduced without stages.
3.3 SR1, a Phonemic Stage.As a first stage towards Phonetic B, Harry Lindgren suggests the sound /e/ should always be written plain E (head thus becomes hed) - a step he labels SR1. But SR1 can be criticized on two counts. Firstly its scope is very limited, as it only affects 1 out of 44 phonemes. Secondly it adopts an auditory, or phonemic, rather than a visual approach: though it writes /e/ consistently as E, SR1 does not mean the letter E is always pronounced /e/. SR1 tells you how to spell a sound, not how to pronounce a letter; in other words, it helps the writer rather than the reader.
4.1 Reading as a Prime Social Function.This leads us to propose a central reform-principle that the needs of readers must have priority over those of writers. In a literate society, reading is a universal, indispensable activity: we are surrounded by the written word, on TV, on signs and hoardings, on public transport, in shops, in instructions, at work, and in our dealings with government and the law. Unlike what we write, we have no choice over much of what we read - nor over its spelling. We are obliged to read whatever text we are face, as best we can. It is therefore crucial that readers should not be defeated by strange spellings.
4.2 Reading as a Psychological Function.Psychologically too reading and writing differ. Reading entails visually recognising groups of letters; while writing depends on recollecting the sounds of words (though there is also an auditory element in reading and a visual element in writing). If for a smooth transition between old and new we have to give priority to ease of reading, then the stages we propose for our reform must be based on visual rather than auditory criteria.
4.3 Visual Disruption in SR1.When we look at the SR1 changes, rather than listening to them, we find that the simple regularization of the phoneme /e/ has some far from simple visual consequences. Admittedly, most words in the SR1 list drop A (head --> hed) when it misleads as to pronunciation, and since no unaccustomed letters are inserted, visual disruption with these words is minimal (SR1 ignores the same pattern in the 14 words of the earn type, though). However SR1 also affects some common words whose forms differ jarringly from t.o. They all substitute letters, either one-for-one (as A/U = /e/ = E : Any/ bUry = Eny/ bEry ), or one-for-two (as Al/AY/A ... E= /e/= E: agAIn/ sAYs/ AtE = agEn/ sEs/ Et ). One also notes that the /e/ pronunciation is not necessarily standard in these words, especially not in ate, which Americans pronounce /eit/.
4.4 Cutting to Reduce Visual Disruption.If the visual, rather than the phonemic, effect is the essential criterion for a first stage, clearly the regular pattern of cutting EA to E is visually far less disturbing than the sundry substitutions made in et/ agenst/ ses etc. Indeed in general we can say that omission of superfluous letters is less disruptive to the familiar look of words than is inserting or substituting letters: cutting leaves the essential phonic skeleton of words untouched, and indeed in longer words may even pass unnoticed.
4.5 Arbitrariness of Phonemic Stages.Another aspect of SR1 is the seeming arbitrariness of the foneme chosen. Almost all RP phonemes require attention, so why pick /e/? It may seem simple to deal with, but we have seen the visual disruption it causes.
4.6 Disruptive Long Vowels.If one criticism of SR1 is its limited effect, regularizing long vowels transforms spellings. The problem here arises from precisely that fact: because so many words are changed, a visual upheaval results. Again, the choice of the long values of AEIOU is rather arbitrary; and we have to ask whether children taught an orthography with regularized long vowels could then read t.o.
5.1 Degree of Change from T.O.We have arrived at the idea of minimal visual disruption as a criterion for first stage reform. Let us apply now this concept to different orthographic systems, and examine how radically each diverges from t.o.
5.2 Computer-readable Codes.Computer-readable codes are perhaps the most remote from t.o. The opening words in a t.o. dictionary might be:
a aardvark aardwolf aback abacus abandon;
for the computer these could be compacted as
a 1ardvark 4wolf 1back 3cus 3ndon.
Or the word itself could be spelled itse because no other word starts with these 4 letters and no ambiguity arises. Such forms may be efficient for data-processng, but they are not readily assimilated by the human reader, since the brain cannot store for ready recall all the information required to interpret such codes.
5.3 Redesigned Alphabets.One step nearer t.o. might be the most efficient conceivable human-readable system, perhaps not based on the Roman alphabet at all, but on characters designed specifically for easy reading and writing. Such systems may interest the typographical designer, but the upheaval their introduction would entail rules out their consideration for first stage reform.
5.4 Shorthands.Closer to t.o. again are shorthands designed for fast writing rather than easy reading. Some, like Pitmans, do not use the Roman alphabet, but others, like Speedwriting, do. Secretarial experience suggests shorthands are inherently reader- unfriendly, but a systematic examination of their potential for normal use might be illuminating.
5.5 Non-phonographic Abbreviation.The same doubt about reader-friendliness arises with systems of abbreviation whose forms do not represent phonemes, but have to be learnt individually. T.o. uses many such, with acronyms like USA and symbols like %. Dutton Speedwords, though using the Roman alphabet, builds up the vocabulary from 493 abbreviations for common root-words; but its abbreviations do not always derive from English - the personal pronoun 'you' for instance is written 'v', from the French 'vous'. Professor Citron's 100 Speed Words on the other hand all have some affinity to t.o., but many nevertheless abandon the phonographic principle and so constitute a code.
5.6 Phonographic Systems with Diacritics.The systems listed below do adhere to the phonographic principle, but the closer to t.o. they get the more erratic become the sound-symbol correspondences. Phonetic B, which replaces the clumsy, ambiguous device of digraphs with acute, grave and circumflex accents, is highly efficient and economical (the great advantage of diacritics) but their disruptive visual impact rules them out as a first stage: they make English look more like Czech.
5.7 Phonographic Systems with Digraphs.NS on th other hand is neither phonetic nor economical. It uses digraphs for long vowels, diphthongs and consonants where the alphabet lacks an appropriate single symbol, and even expands X to KS, which is uneconomical as well as visually disruptive. Though less revolutionary than Harry Lindgren's diacritics, NS is still disturbingly different from t.o., and clumsy to boot.
5.8 Tidying-up Systems.Axel Wijk's Regularized Spelling essentially constitutes a tidying-up system. It changes the t.o. spelling of far fewer words than NS (29% instead of 69%); and to that extent it is visually less disruptive. It tries to ensure that a given spelling always represents the same phoneme; but it does not ensure the reverse, that a given phoneme always has the same spelling. Even so, the system requires a plethora of basically arbitrary rules, and one must ask: if one is going to go to such trouble, why not devise a fully consistent system? But if the system is unconvincing, the book itself is a treasury of t.o. sound-spelling correspondences of great value to orthographers for reference.
5.9 Phoneme-based Reforms.We have analysed two such proposals, SR1 and long vowels, in paragraphs 3.3 and 4.3-4.6 above. Their problem lies in the paradox that the more comprehensive they are, the greater the visual disruption they cause, and vice versa.
5.10 Reform by Visual Pattern.Lastly, before t.o. itself, we come to Cut Spelling, which is based on phonemically-defined visual patterns. It has just 3 main patterns (cf. the 50 SRs, or Axel Wijk's innumerable case-studies), and by omitting rather than actually changing letters, it ensures that the essential phonemic features of t.o. spelling are preserved, while visual disruption is minimized. Yet the gain in both regularity and economy is very substantial indeed.
6.1 Cut Spelling: its Rationale.Cut Spelling (CS) aims at maximum advantage by way of regularity and economy, combined with minimum disadvantage by way of visual disruption. A basic feature is that no letter that is pronounced, even if wrongly, is omitted; in this way the fundamental, recognizable framework or phonemic skeleton of each word in t.o. is retained. The word any (which SR1 changes to eny ), for instance, is unchanged: because the A is pronounced, it is kept. If strictly applied, CS does not actually change any letters at all, but only omits them. Nevertheless it is worth considering whether some letter-changes can perhaps be profitably combined with CS. CS should meet the two key criteria previously set out: adults can read it uninstructed, and children taught only CS should still be able to read t.o., since it contains all the CS letters.
6.2 Rules of Cutting.CS has 3 main rules. Rules 1 and 2 (omit silent letters, simplify doubled consonants) are commonplace in most reform proposals. Rule 3 (non-spelling of post-accentual shwa) has a broad application to an intractable t.o. problem. CS cuts only post-accentual shwa because in fluent reading it is primarily the early letters in words that trigger recognition, while later letters (except for the final one) have the lowest visual prominence. Not spelling post-accentual shwa has the additional advantage of indicating the stress-pattern in words more clearly: if the noun present is cut to presnt, the second syllable cannot possibly be stressed, whereas the spelling of the verb present shows the second syllable may be stressed.
6.3 Application of CS to T.o.The 3 rules may be formally stated as follows:
1. omit letters having no bearing on pronunciation;
2. simplify doubled consonants;
3.1 do not spell post-accentual shwa before L/M/N/R & -BLE suffixes (on the model of syllabic L/M in appl(e)/ spasm/ rhythm); and
3.2 do not spell the unstressed vowel in -D/-S/-ST inflections (on the model of hate+D, hale+S, late+ST ).
These rules produce forms as follows:
Rule 1
|A hed ern coco
C sience
|B lam det
D wensday
|E edg ampl com shon imagin ar loos delegat liv valu ew; hart siv
|G naw foren eit
H eir onest scool gost rythm thru wen wy
K nave nife noledg
N condem
P seudo sycology receit
T hasen wisl cach
W rite windo
NB No cut in: comB, to delegatE, siGn, acHe, shoWn.
I frend juce receve
L shud samn haf
O peple choclat tuch colnl
S iland
U bild sholder tho
Rule 2.
|BB eb pebl abreviat
DD ad padl adict
GG eg gigl agravate
LL bel alow filet aleviate
NN in winr anul
(QQ=)CQU aqit aqire
SS fus tasl asembl
(XX=)XC exept
|CC/CK pik pikl aclaim
FF snif bafl aford
(JJ=)DJ ajust ajectiv
MM hamr imediat
PP apl aply
RR er wory iritate
TT batl atemt
ZZ buz puzl
|NB - No cut in aCCept, etc as both Cs are pronounced.
|- Ambiguity in: hoping/hopping, duly/dully,etc.
Rule 3.1
L principl principly hovl fosl petrl usefl dificlt
M madm systm victm fathm conundrm autm
N hoolign importnt importnce beatn dependnt dependnce dependncy raisn curtn suspicn cushn pasn informatn lemn
R burglr standrd boundry teachr bitrly modrn lotry amatr authr histry vigr murmur figr martr
BL pasbl posbl
NB - Repeated consonants arise in such cases as: maximm eminnt wandrr Febrry probbl
- Possible non-omission after vowels, L and R.
Rule 3.2
(Regularize tense and number inflections of verbs and nouns, and the superlative inflection of adjectives, by only ever adding -D/-S/-ST)
+S archs teachs hedgs dodgs bushs pushs axs fixs breezs freezs
+D heard
+ST richst lushst
NB Forms containing doubled and/or repeated consonants such as: masses gases losses fusses buses added needed become: mass gass loss fuss buss add needd.
6.4 Test-text transcribed into CS.Fuzy-Opaqe Orthograficl Visns
Ther was a poor boy cudnt spel
Haf th words in our language too wel.
His teachrs thot: "Brain-sik!"
Mum and Dad hoped: "Dyslexic?"
Yet th child rashly jeerd: "Wat th hel!"
(This CS transcription contains 152 letters; t.o. has 13.6% and NS 9% more, but Phonetic B 16% less.)
6.5 Degree of Visual Disruption.Just as Section 5 arranged various orthographies in order of remoteness from t.o., so the following hierarchy of cutting-patterns in CS shows the degree of visual shock each occasions, relative to t.o., the first being the least disruptive and the last the most disruptive.
1. Post-accentual shwa in polysyllabic words (Rule 3): meteorologicl vice-presidnt
2. Simplified consonants in polysyllabic words (Rule 2): acomodating paralel comitee
3. Silent letters in mid-word (Rule 1): honymoon iland hauty cardbord gingerbred
4. Post-accentual shwa in short words (Rule 3): chapl randm pistn presnt undr
5. Silent final letters (Rule 1): tho handl imagin theatr goos minut elusiv ew wido
6. Silent letter and post-accentual shwa omitted (Rules 1 & 3): autm
7. Consonant simplified, silent letter omitted (Rules 1 & 2): rubd lakd snifd lagd feld jamd pland dropd rord hisd buzd buzd folo wino aro
8. Consonant simplified, post-accentual shwa omitted (Rules 2 & 3): batl botm bitn butr
9. Omission of post-accentual shwa highlights misleading consonant-value: suspicn visn permisn informatn crucifixn
10 Silent initial letter omitted (Rule 1): naw neel seudonym rong
11 Various combined cuts: y
If some straightforward letter-substitutions are incorporated in CS, then the following patterns might arise:
12 GH/PH = /f/ = F: laf cof fonetic autograf nefew
13 DGE/GE = J: ej juj bajr larj jinjr.
6.5 Simplicity of CS.As well as satisfying the two criteria of first stage feasibility, a great attraction of CS is its simplicity. Firstly, it is simple to use, because it regularizes some of the most perplexing inconsistencies of t.o., such as single/double consonants and the spelling of post-accentual shwa, and it shortens words - a benefit that should not be underestimated. Secondly, it is relatively simple to apply to t.o., since cutting redundant letters is simpler than inserting new letters (insertion requires an additional set of rules).
6.6 Some difficulties of CS.Cutting does not however always just involve mechanically applying 3 rules, since snags are encountered in some orthographic or phonotactic contexts. Consider for instance the effect of omitting the capitalized letter in the following words: for Rule 1, siGn (becomes sin); for Rule 2, hopPing (becomes hoping); for Rule 3, fatAl (appears to rhyme with cattle which is cut to catl). In these cases omission is problematic, as will also be seen in the exercises at the end of this paper. These cases are however only snags for users of CS proficient in t.o.; children taught CS instead of t.o. would not perceive them as snags.
6.7 Implementation scenario.How could the implementation of CS be envisaged? The two key steps would be its introduction in schools in place of t.o., and a few years later its use by the publishing industry, particularly newspapers. Adults would receive guidelines for its use, but the only adults who would need actually to become proficient in it would be teachers and those professionally concerned with the production of printed text for public consumption. Such a relatively straightforward scenario depends on that characteristic of CS which other reform schemes do not share to anything like the same degree: the mutual intelligibility of CS and t.o. - which is another way of saying that CS meets the two essential criteria of feasibility.
See Part 2, Reading practice, Exercises and Key.
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The report provides a review of the mergers and acquisitions (M&As), capital raising, partnering deals and agreements entered into by CPG companies during July 2012.
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Why was the report written?
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The report provides detailed analysis on M&A activity in the CPG industry in July 2012 compared to June 2012, and the trailing twelve month average. This provides an insight into the inorganic growth strategies of companies in the industry and competitor tracking.
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Key Highlights
The beverages segment recorded the highest growth in deal value, from US$90 million in June to US$5.6 billion in July, compared to most of the other segments. Many beverage companies resorted to debt offerings by issuing bonds to raise capital or announced such plans during the month.
Deal activities in Asia Pacific witnessed renewed interest during July as CPG manufacturers announced or completed deals, especially in the food segment. While the US remains the top country in terms of deal activity, a significant increase was noticed in Australia, Malaysia, Turkey and Singapore overtaking the other Asian fast growing economies of China and India.
The deal value of debt offerings registered a significant month on month increase with US$20,962.9 million worth of deals in July compared to US$6979.9 million in June. Additionally, six large debt offerings with a deal value equal to or above US$1,000.0 million were recorded in the month.
1 Introduction
1.1 What is this Report About?
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Summary Methodology
2 Analysis
2.1 Deals in Beverages Segment Witness Major Growth in July
2.2 Greater CPG Deal Activity Recorded in the Emerging Markets
3 Deal Volume and Value Analysis
3.1 By Deal Type
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3.3 By Region
3.4 Deals in Active Markets
3.5 Deal Size Analysis
3.6 Deal Rationale Analysis
3.7 Main Deals
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Table 1: Active Regions, July 2012
Table 2: Deal Size Analysis, July 2012
Table 3: Main Deals, July 2012
Table 4: Main PE/VC Deals, July 2012
Table 5: Main Capital Raising Deals, July 2012
Table 6: Main Cross Border M&A Deals, July 2012
Table 7: Main Deals in Emerging Markets, July 2012
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Figure 1: Deal Volume by Deal type, July 2012
Figure 2: Deal Value by Deal type (US$ Million), July 2012
Figure 3: Deal Volume by Segment, July 2012
Figure 4: Deal Value by Segment (US$ Million), July 2012
Figure 5: Deal Volume by Region, July 2012
Figure 6: Deal Value by Region (US$ Million), July 2012
Figure 7: Analysis of Deals by Deal Rationale (%), July 2012
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At least two NASCAR fans stuck by flying debris at the Daytona International Speedway on Saturday have retained legal representation. Matt Morgan, of the Morgan and Morgan law firm, confirmed that they are now representing two of the victims.
Some spectators have questioned whether there are grounds to sue, saying that the fan assumes some responsibility, knowing that racing can be a dangerous sport. After all, some NASCAR fans would argue that the best seats in the house are the ones right up front next partition that divides the track from the stands. Event tickets also contain a disclaimer, in black and white print that, "the holder of this ticket expressly assumes all risk incident to the event."
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FOX 35 legal analyst Diana Tennis said that those words are meaningless. "Businesses often attempt to limit their liability by putting things like this on the tickets. Little teeny-tiny writing and no signatures on anything else. It's really not going to be binding."
Tennis said the 30 fans injured on Saturday could sue. "Now, will the race track have a legitimate argument that people there assume some level of risk of injury? Perhaps. But I think they also have to agree that the fencing that's up is there for a reason, and they'd expect that that fence would withstand tires being blown through it. So, I think the fact there was a breach, in fact, in their 'security,' certainly could open them up to a lawsuit," said Tennis.
She said the list of who could be named in a lawsuit is long. "You've got the track, the people who constructed the fencing, you potentially have the people who made the fencing, you potentially have was there someone who did something to one of the vehicles that helped cause the crash that helped send the tire flying that went through the fence," said Tennis.
As time goes on and investigators learn more about the cause of the crash, those who are clearly not at fault or negligent would be dropped from the lawsuit. Tennis said no on would get rich from a personal injury lawsuit in the case. She said the goal here is about getting medical bills and loss of wages covered.
Ultimately, if it comes to that point, it would be up to a jury to make that decision. Tennis said there is also a possibility that the race folks could offer to cover the victims' medical expenses or offer a settlement to avoid and trial.
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Carolina goaltender Cam Ward was injured when he collided with Jack Skille off a scoring chance. The play knocked Ward and the net back a few feet, and Ward was very slow to get up. The trainer came out, but Ward opted to play through the pain and stay in the game. That was a poor choice.
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Over the years we have come to understand that, in writing a weekly column, it is not possible to always please everyone. And such was the case with our column that ran at the end of March in which we wrote about our experience as in inpatient following a total hip replacement.
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COUNTY OF FILLMORE IN DISTRICT COURT THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT PROBATE DIVISION Court File No. 23-PR-05-144 In Re: Estate of Kari Taylor Deceased. NOTICE OF INFORMAL PROBATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND CREDITORS: Notice is hereby given, that an application for informal probate of the above named decedent's last will, dated October 27, 2000, has been filed with the Registrar herein, and the application has been granted informally probating such will. Any objections may be filed in the above named court and the same will be heard by the Court upon notice of hearing fixed for such purpose. Notice is hereby given that informal appointment of Edward G. Taylor, whose address is Rural Route 2, Box 492, Lanesboro, Minnesota, as personal representative of the estate of the above named decedent has been made. Any heir, devisee, or other interested person may be entitled to appointment as personal representative or may object to the appointment of the personal representative and the personal representative is empowered to fully administer the estate including, after 30 days from the date of issuance of his letters, the power to sell, encumber, lease, or distribute real estate, unless objections thereto are filed with the Court (pursuant to Section 524.3-607) and the Court otherwise orders. Notice is further given that ALL CREDITORS having claims against said estate are required to present the same to said personal representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this notice or said claims will be barred. Dated: Oct. 24, 2005 /s/ James D. Attwood Registrar JAMES D. ATTWOOD, Court Administrator Thomas M. Manion, Jr. of Herrick & Manion Attorneys for Estate 600 Kenilworth Ave. S, Box 420 Lanesboro, MN 55949 Phone: 507-467-2317 Attorney�s Registration No. 67167 Publish 31,7


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ATHENS - The Eastside cross country teams recorded top-10 finishes in the Northeast Georgia Invitational at Athens Christian on Saturday.The Lady Eagles chalked up a fifth-place finish in the girls race with 142 points. East Jackson won the event with 69 points, followed by Loganville (78), Jefferson (88), Buford (117) and Eastside. Blakely Smith and Ally Haynie led the way for the Lady Eagles by posting 12th- and 13th-place individual finishes. Smith recorded a time of 22 minutes, 42.33 seconds, and Haynie was less than two seconds behind at 22:44.03. Naomi Denby (19th, 23:19.50), Mariah Parker (52nd, 26:27.46) and Deanna Kaluta (53rd, 26:32.08) rounded out the top five for the Lady Eagles. In the boys race, Kyle Yeomans turned in Eastside's best time at 18:46.34 to place 27th individually, as the Eagles posted a ninth-place team finish with 263 points. Habersham Central claimed the boys title with 71 points. East Jackson was second at 92, followed by Flowery Branch (136), Washington County (158), Loganville (169), Elbert County (194), Hephzibah (230), Stockbridge (237) and Eastside (264). Rounding out the Eastside top five were Michael Hammock (42nd, 19:20.61), Mikey Rue (46th, 19:23.72), Bilia Prince (78th, 20:16.67) and Jason Croom (83rd, 20:27.41). The Eastside squads return to action at The Rock Ranch Invitational on Saturday.
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By GUY KOVNER
FORTUNA — The broad smile, a trademark of his 20 years of representing the North Coast in Congress, still flashes across Don Clausen's face.
"I had a good run," Clausen said during a 90-minute interview at the Fortuna nursing home where he has lived for the past year.
Taking cues from the photographs on the walls of his room, and with some prompting from son-in-law Jim Baumgartner, Clausen reflected on his youth in Ferndale, his prowess as an ambidextrous baseball pitcher, service as a World War II aviator, two decades in Congress and 63 years of marriage to his late wife, Ollie.
Saturday, Clausen will celebrate his 90th birthday at a public event at the Ferndale Town Hall, not far from the blue, three-story home at the edge of town where Clausen grew up in the verdant Eel River Valley.
"Lucky, I guess," Clausen said of his longevity, but age has taken a toll on the once-energetic Republican who held office for two decades in a Democrat-dominated district from Sonoma County to the Oregon border.
Diabetes, lung disease and recurring headaches have sapped his strength, and two falls last year that involved head injuries diminished his memory.
"I don't feel like I'm as sharp as I used to be, by a damn sight," Clausen said, sitting in a wheelchair, wearing khaki slacks, a striped shirt and nylon jacket.
Glancing at a painting of Ollie on his wall, Clausen said: "She was a jewel."
He remembers meeting the former Jessie Oleva Piper, a waitress at the Hi-Ho ice cream shop in Crescent City, in 1948.
Clausen, who established an insurance agency and an air ambulance service in the Del Norte County seat after the war, offered to teach Ollie how to fly.
She became a pilot and a congressman's wife, hosting Hollywood stars and political leaders and compiling a paperback cookbook of family recipes that Don Clausen still autographs and hands out to people he meets.
Ollie died of cancer in July, and Baumgartner said his father-in-law hasn't been the same since her death. The Clausens lived in Santa Rosa from 1990, when Clausen retired from a Federal Aviation Administration job, until they moved a year ago to the nursing home.
Clausen got into politics in 1955, when he was elected to the Del Norte board of supervisors. In 1962, he lost a bid for Congress to Clem Miller of Marin County, a popular Democratic incumbent who died in a plane crash a month before the election.
Three months later, Clausen won the special election to fill the vacancy created by Miller's death.
An affable, talkative man, given to slapping other men on the back and kissing women's hands, Clausen proved a natural at politics, hailing from the far north end of the coastal district in which more than half of the registered voters were Democrats throughout his tenure from 1962-82.
The night he was unseated by Democrat Doug Bosco in November 1982, Clausen said he was "sort of ending where we started" with election losses book-ending his career.
"The really happy man is the one who can enjoy the scenery when he has to make a detour," he told friends in the banquet room of a Santa Rosa hotel.
Clausen, who served in Congress under six presidents from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan, was a moderate Republican, a political species that is "practically extinct today," said David McCuan, a Sonoma State University political scientist.
His goal, like many of his Capitol Hill colleagues in both parties, was to "deliver the pork," McCuan said, securing federal funds to build highways, bridges and airports, dredge harbors and dam rivers.
With a seat on the House Public Works and Transportation Committee, Clausen was in a position to do just that. A 17-mile stretch of Highway 101 north of Orick is the Congressman Don Clausen Highway, bypassing Redwood National Park, and the fish hatchery at Warm Springs Dam, a $330 million project that assured Sonoma County's water supply, also bears his name.
To secure money in a Congress run by Democrats throughout his tenure, Clausen said he had to cultivate friends across the aisle.
"There was no alternative," said Clausen, recalling a more collegial body than today's Congress, gridlocked by partisan warfare that contributes to a public approval rating below 20 percent.
Bipartisanship was "in our mutual interest," Clausen said, recalling a close relationship with Rep. Harold "Bizz" Johnson, a Democrat from Roseville who chaired the Public Works committee.
Bosco, who also sat on the committee, said he followed Clausen's pork-procuring approach. (Bosco is an investor in Sonoma Media Investments, which owns The Press Democrat.) The House passed 13 appropriations bills every year, he said, each one packed with projects spread over red and blue districts, assuring approval.
"To get along you had to go along," Bosco said.
But Clausen's 20 years on the Hill spanned a transformative era from the relative innocence of the early 1960s into the civil rights movement, Vietnam war protest and Watergate, the scandal that embedded cynicism in American politics.
On the North Coast, the battle over PG&E's proposed nuclear plant at Bodega Bay and rampant logging of redwood forests sharpened the battle line between left and right.
Clausen said he had always depended on corralling thousands of Democratic votes, calling it "a matter of survival." He campaigned hard among Democrats, he said, assuming that Republicans were in his corner.
In 1962, the Republicans' 44 percent share of registered voters in the district was sufficient. But by 1982, the GOP's share of voters had slipped to 33 percent, 20 points below the Democrats.
A nagging recession, with unemployment at 20 percent in Humboldt County, and reapportionment that removed Lake and Napa counties from the district helped Bosco beat Clausen by 6,000 votes in 1982.
Clausen, whose politics were aligned with Ronald Reagan's — his favorite president — was undone by the demographic shift in the district and the focused, media-savvy campaign that Bosco mobilized, McCuan said.
Bosco said he took advantage of the nuclear weapons freeze, a dominant national issue embraced by liberals in 1982. Californians approved a freeze initiative by 52 percent statewide; in Sonoma County the measure got 58 percent approval.
Another factor was Bosco's stature as a state legislator, the first formidable challenger Clausen faced. His previous opponents included Norma Bork, a Napa County speech pathologist, and Oscar Klee, a Mendocino County accountant convicted of failing to file personal income tax returns.
Before the end of 1982, Clausen secured a $58,000 a year job with the Federal Aviation Administration under the Reagan administration, a post he held for seven years.
Bosco, who served four terms in Congress and is now a Santa Rosa attorney, said he and Clausen developed a "mutual appreciation" of one another.
Clausen said he harbors no ill will, describing Bosco as "a good guy."
Sitting among his mementos at the nursing home, Clausen said he would not do anything different if he had to live life again.
As a high school pitcher, he could throw curves left- and right-handed, and later his Navy team beat a squad led by Red Sox slugger Ted Williams.
In Congress, he pitched for the GOP in the annual ballgame against the Democrats, and his memory of that is sharp.
Did he win?
"Yeah," Clausen said quickly, with that smile.
One of the great leaders of the North Coast in an era much different than today.
Good jobs, good schools, no potholes in the roads, and balanced budgets. The North Coast was a buzz of commerce. You went to bed knowing that tomorrow was going to be even better.
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activities and attractions in Newport Beach Los Angeles Area
Attractions: Rollerblading, Biking, Surfing, Swimming, Boogie Boarding, Sun Bathing
Nearby Convenience: Shopping, Restaurants, Bike Rental, Move Theatre, Library, Newport Pier
Just 4 Houses on Beach!
vacation rental rates
Summer High Season: 6/23 - 8/18
Summer Shoulder Season: 5/26 - 6/22 and 8/19 - 9/8
Off Season: 2/1 - 5/25 and 9/9 - 12/31
Holiday weeks are Thanksgiving week and Christmas week, refer to Summer High Season pricing.
10% tax
$269/departure cleaning (includes sheets for beds & towels for showering)
Must Be 25+ Years to Rent Property
Available Summer Only


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Collins, signed when the Colts realized Peyton Manning would not be ready for Week One, struggled in his three games as the Colts' starter. He completed 49 percent of his passes and was sacked five times before being removed from the lineup in favor of Curtis Painter. Though he has not made any public statement, it is widely believed that the 38-year-old will retire once again.
The Colts also placed FB Chris Gronkowski on I.R. To fill the vacant roster spots, the team signed OG Jamey Richard and OT Michael Toudouze to their 53-man roster.