Shavian alphabet Shavian alphabet The Shavian alphabet (also known as the Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of conventional spelling. It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Shaw set three main criteria for the new alphabet: it should be (1) at least 40 letters; (2) as "phonetic" as possible (that is, letters should have a to phonemes); and (3) distinct from the Latin alphabet to avoid the impression that the new spellings were simply "misspellings". The Shavian alphabet consists of
The Peach Blossom Fan satirizing the traitor Wang Jingwei of that time. In 1964, playwright Mei Qian (梅阡) and Sun Jing (孫敬), using Ou's endding, put the drama into a movie script, starring famous actress Wang Danfeng and actor Feng Zhe. "The Peach Blossom Fan" was printed during Kong Shangren's lifetime. Several variations in the text appear in subsequent editions of the play. There was 1982 edition edited by Wang Chi-ssu and others, published in Beijing. The play is presented in four "juan" ("chüan") rather than the standard two parts. One edition published by the University of California Press was translated into English by