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Sounds a lot like a non-pacifist version of Slipways.

I think you become a professional job seeker until you land a better job.

Whoa there, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Military service

Excuse me but I was told it's turtles an the way down.

Eat some glass?

Want to see an astrophysicist talk for nearly an hour on the general topic of why Christmas gifts (but not gifts in general) are bad? You're in luck!

Remember the golden rule, folks: every accusation is a confession.

If you use it often that stops being a problem. You remember command names like they're your friends.

The letter shapes are a lot nicer and they can all be written easily with a single stroke. IPA is really ugly IMHO.

Yep.

I just learned of the Shavian Alphabet yesterday. It's designed specifically for English and fits it well, except the sounds in it are so specific that when you write in it, you have to write in a specific regional accent. Fortunately it can't become a new set of special cases because it's an entirely new script not related to Latin.

I'm American and I understood it without noticing. It doesn't look unusual at all to me.