On Monday, August 5, 1996 at 4:00:00 AM UTC-3, Heron Stone wrote:   
   > I believe that i have come up with an interesting variation on the   
   > traditional anagram.  At least I haven't seen anything like it before.   
   > It's a phonetic anagram.  One of its aspects is that it preserves the   
   > "tonal" quality of the original.   
   >   
   > Here are some examples using my name "Heron Stone".   
   >   
   > Writing "Heron Stone" phonetically requires the use of one non-standard   
   > symbol for the "o" in Heron.  It's the schwa (known to linguists) and I   
   > will represent here with a dash  "-"   
   >   
   > HER-NSDON  Heron Stone   
   >   
   > It's written without spaces because we speak that way.  Notice, also, that   
   > the "t" in Stone is actually pronounced more like a "d" than a "t".   
   >   
   > some phonetic anagrams for HER-NSDON are:   
   >   
   > DEN-SHORN  Dennis Horn   
   > EDN-HOSNR  Edna Hosner   
   > OHENDRS-N  O'Henderson   
   > NRDOHES-N  Nrdo Hesson   
   > ORS-NHEND  Orson Hend   
   > NONRS-HED  No nurse ahead   
   > NO-HEDNRS  Noah Headnurse   
   > SENDHR-NO  Send her a "no".   
   > HENS-DRON  Hence, a drone   
   >   
   > An old girlfriend named Christine Saldana (KRISDYNS9LDANY-) (I hope she's   
   > not listening) becomes  -NASDYSN9RLYKID, "a nasty snarly kid" (9 ="a" as   
   > in father)   
   >   
   > All of this grew out of a phonetic writing system I developed for teaching   
   > pronunciation to students of English as a Second Language.  The system is   
   > called Phonographics (tm) (FON-GRAFIkS) (TM).  The system uses 29 basic   
   > symbols to represent the sounds of standard spoken American/English.  A   
   > fun challenge is creating/discovering  sequences of 29 phonemes that use   
   > all of the symbols once and only once, a sort of alternative "alphbet", an   
   > easy way to remember all the symbols.  It's not easy to do.  I've come up   
   > with only two, although I'm sure there are countless more.   
   > Before this will make sense, you have to know that FON-GRAFIkS employs 7   
   > new symbols.  The old symbols have the commonly attributed sounds.   
   >   
   > The new symbols are actually newly designed symbols but I'll just use   
   > numbers here:   
   > 5 = "ng" as in ring   
   > 6 = "th" as in "the"   
   > 7 = "th" as in "thin"   
   > 8 = "sh" as in "shut"   
   > 9 =  "a" as in "father"   
   > - = "a" as in "patrol"  the schwa of linguistics   
   >   
   > Here goes:   
   >   
   > GUF  HEDJAZNRVPILBOY5KS6-79TM08   
   > Goof?  HeadJazz Nerve Pill boinks the thought mush.   
   >   
   > and   
   >   
   > PIGYBRE7H95KS6-DJAZFLUT0VMO8N   
   > Piggy breath honks the jazz flute of motion.   
   >   
   > I challenge you to come up with some more of them.  Also, I don't have a   
   > name for these "alphabets".  Any suggestions?   
   >   
   > yours in Earth,   
   >   
   > heron   
   > --   
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   >   
   > Heron Stone               hstone@lib.occ.cccd.edu              714/995-9342   
      
      
   On another forum there is a really, really crazy disturbed old lady who thinks   
   anagrams told her she is the Apostle John. Do people really believe that   
   anagrams reveal hidden knowledge?   
      
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