an Idea spawned last Night

I was just researching some Linguistics last Night, cos as many of you know, I'm really into Linguistics and I really would like to be a Linguist when I get out of University. I discovered that someone had come up with the Idea a while back(actually it's been a Series of ongoing Ideas throughout the History of the English Language and most other Languages as well) to reform the English Alphabet/Spelling. Other Languages have gone through Reforms quite easily. For Example, the norwegian Language went through a fairly recent Reform to make their Spelling less like that of the Danish Language I believe. The Reforms proposed for English though have been with the Idea that we can save much Paper therefore saving Money. If we are able to Print a Book in a new Alphabet saving at least one Page, that's 1 Page per Book. If 30 000 Copies of that Book are sold, that's 30 000 Pages saved. If not doing it for the Money, doing it for the Environment is also a good Reason to adopt this new(or not so new apparently, just not popular) Idea.
Anyhow, this Man came up with an Idea for a Contest to find new Ways of Conserving Paper. Many People entered the Contest, but one Man had a brilliant Idea. He came up with an Alphabet using Phonetics instead of Diphthongs and double Consonants(or in other Words, spelling out Sounds using more than one Character). The main Problem to start off with was that there are many different Kinds of English. There is british English, american English, welsh English, irish English, australian English, malaysian English, jamaican English(Patois to some), New York English, Boston English... etc... so Phonetics don't really work too well with more than one Kind of the Language. So, in Order for it to work widely spread, we would have to standardise English, which CAN be done, but it would take Years, and we would need Cooperation from all English Speakers, and unfortunately there are MANY MANY stubborn People out there. Personally, for the Sake of Conservation, I'd be willing to change my Accent. Secondly though, We would also need the People to be willing to learn the new Alphabet. For me, it's not hard to learn a new Alphabet, but I understand that I have accelled in Linguisitics and I have dabbled in it for Years. BUT, I think for local use, it's not such a bad Idea. For Example if you live in London, you hear the Accent of the London People all Day, every Day. If you go to School in London, I think you can easily take a Test or read a Book written in the local Slang or local Dialect, so there's no Reason that you couldn't learn the Phonetics. All it is, is an Exchange of one Sound for one Symbol.
This Man one the Contest, and his Idea was used for a Book Publishing. The Book "War and Peace" was published using his phonetic Alphabet and 90 PAGES WER SAVED! This is a much larger Scale than earlier's Example, so let's figure this one out. If 30 000 Copies of THIS Book are sold, that's 2 700 000 Pages saved!! That's a Hell of a Lot! If we have a Book that is 270 Pages long, we can print 10 000 Copies of that Book just from the saved Pages of "War and Peace". If you ask me, standardising English can help us conserve a LOT, no Matter how long it takes. Personally, I like going out and enjoying Nature and having it there. I know it is inevitable that most of Nature will be destroyed, and I understand that Efforts ARE there to help conserve and rebuild Nature. BUT, if we all start conserving now, we can at least slow the Effects of our Destruction. I would really like my Children and their Children and their Children at least to be able to see the Rainforest, and to be able to go onto a Mountain that's not yet being developed upon and enjoy Nature, and this is why I'm all for Conservation. So, I created a phonetic Alphabet of my own to use in my Journal and other Things I write for myself, because if I can't convince others to conserve, the least I can do is practice what I preach. If you do wanna learn it though, here it is, hehe:

p poop
b bib
t tot
d dead

k kick
g gag
f fee
v vow
þ thigh
ð they
s so
z zoo
ſ ship
ž measure
č church
j judge
y yeah
w woe
ŋ hung
h haha
ł ball
r roar
m mime
n nine
ĭ if
ē eat
ĕ egg
ă ash
ā ate
ī ice
ə Alabama
ŭ up
ŏ on
ō oak
ö wool
u ooze
ø out
œ oil
a ah
å dawn
Ǎ are
Ǒ or
Ě air
ǿ Church
Ǔ array
Ǐ ear
Ĵ ian
ü you
ą ahn
ę pen
į in
ų under
l lamp

So, as you can see, some of the Letters are capitalised while others are not. This is because I've completely thrown out the Rule for Capitalisation. In my Phonetics, there is no such Thing as Capitalisation, as much as I like to capitalise my Nouns, haha...

Now, you may think that this Alphabet really makes NO Difference, right? I'm sure some of you know it does. It doesn't take much Thought to realise that a Sound in English is longer than a Letter usually. For Example, the Sound of "ng" in the Word "scathing" is written with 2 Letters forming only 1 Sound. In an Attempt to save Room on the Paper, we can use my Phonetics turning the Word "scathing" into "skāðĭŋ". It's still pronounced the same, but it takes up less Room to write. Like the Example about the saving one Page compared to saving 90 Pages, this one Word doesn't really conserve much, but let me give you an Example of an entire Speach. The Following is the Gettysburg Address:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

And now the Following is this in my Phonetics, keep in Mind that this Gettysburg Address is 22(including Spaces in between Paragraphs) Lines long:

fǑ skǑ ən sĕvən yǏz əgō ør faðǿz brŏt fǑþ, əpŏn ðĭs kŏntįęt, ə nü nāſən, kənsēvd į lĭbǿtē, ən dĕdĭkādĭd tu ðə prŏpəzĭſən ðăt ał mĕn Ǎ krēādĭd ēkwöł.

nø wē Ǎ ęgājd į ə grāt sĭvəł wǑ, tĕstĭŋ wĕðǿ ðăt nāſən, Ǒ ănē nāſən sō kənsēvd, ən sō dĕdĭkādĭd, kən lŏŋ ędyǿ. wē Ǎ mĕt hǏ ŏn ə grāt bădəłfēłd ŭv ðăt wǑ. wē hăv kŭm tu dĕdĭkāt ə pǑſən ŭv ĭt ăz ə fīnəł rĕstĭŋ plās fǑ ðōz hu hǏ gāv ðĚ līvz ðăt ðăt nāſən mīt lĭv. ĭt ĭz ałtugĕðǿ fĭdĭŋ ən prŏpǿ ðăt wē ſöd du ðĭs.

bŭt į ə lǍjǿ sęs wē kən nŏt dĕdĭkāt - wē kən nŏt kŏnsəkrāt - wē kən nŏt hălō ðĭs grønd. ðə brāv mĕn, lĭvĭŋ ən dĕd, hu strŭgəld, hǏ, hăv kŏnsəkrādĭd ĭt fǍ əbŭv ør pur pøǿ tu ăd Ǒ dētrăkt. ðə wǿłd wĭł lĭdəl nōt, nǑ lŏŋ rēmĕmbǿ, wŭt wē sā hǏ, bŭt kən nĕvǿ fǑgĕt wŭt ðā dĭd hǏ.

ĭt ĭz fǑ ŭs, ðə lĭvĭŋ, răðǿ tu bē dĕdĭkādĭd hǏ tu ðē ųfįĭſd wǿk wĭč ðā hăv, ðŭs fǍ, sō nōblē kărēd ŏn. ĭt ĭz răðǿ fǑ ŭs tu bē hǏ dĕdĭkādĭd tu ðə grāt tăsk rēmānĭŋ bēfǑ ŭs - ðăt frŭm ðēz ŏnǿd dĕd wē tāk įkrēsd dēvōſən tu ðăt kåz fǑ wĭč ðā hǏ gāv ðə lăst föł mĕžǿ ŭv dēvōſən - ðăt wē hǏ hīlē rēzŏłv ðăt ðēz dĕd ſăł nŏt hăv dīd į vān; ðăt ðĭs nāſən ſăł hăv ə nü bǿþ ŭv frēdəm; ən ðăt ðĭs gŭvǿnmęt ŭv ðə pēpəl, bī ðə pēpəl, fǑ ðə pēpəl, ſăł nŏt pĚĭſ frŭm ðē ǿþ.

The new one that I wrote is only 18 Lines. That's not MUCH of a Difference, but if you consider how many Words could be placed on those extra two Lines, it really does make a Difference.